Johnstone, Barbara

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

DC 306.44 / J62