The linguistic individual : self-expression in language and linguistics /
Barbara Johnstone.
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1996
- xiv, 215 pages: music ; 25 cm.
- Oxford studies in sociolinguistics .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Ch. 1 Discourse, Society, and the Individual 3 Ch. 2 Resources and Reasons for Individual Style 26 Ch. 3 Individual Voice and Articulate Speaking 59 Ch. 4 Individual Variation in Scripted Talk 92 Ch. 5 Consistency and Individual Style 128 Ch. 6 Idiosyncracy and Its Interpretation 157 Ch. 7 Toward a Linguistics of the Individual Speaker 178 Notes 189 References 195 Index
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Linguistics Individuality Language and languages Sociolinguistics