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Codes and Consequences: Choosing Linguistic Varieties

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Codes and Consequences: Choosing Linguistic Varieties - Myers-Scotton, Carol (Editor)
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Carol Myers-Scotton has edited a collection of essays that covers the choice of one style of English over another in everything from Bible translations to "surprise in poetry" to supervisor-worker interactions on the automobile assembly line. An important theme developed to varying degrees in these papers is the notion that speakers and writers, as rational actors, exploit the unmarked-marked opposition regarding audience expectations so as to convey messages of intentionality charged with social or psychological import.

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Codes and Consequences: Choosing Linguistic Varieties 1998, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195115239

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Codes and Consequences: Choosing Linguistic Varieties 1998, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195115222

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