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Author Johnstone, Barbara.

Title The linguistic individual : self-expression in language and linguistics / Barbara Johnstone
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1996

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 MELB  306.44 Joh/Lis  AVAILABLE
Description xiv, 215 pages ; 25 cm
Series Oxford studies in sociolinguistics
Oxford studies in sociolinguistics.
Contents Ch. 1. Discourse, Society, and the Individual -- Ch. 2. Resources and Reasons for Individual Style -- Ch. 3. Individual Voice and Articulate Speaking -- Ch. 4. Individual Variation in Scripted Talk -- Ch. 5. Consistency and Individual Style -- Ch. 6. Idiosyncracy and Its Interpretation -- Ch. 7. Toward a Linguistics of the Individual Speaker
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-207) and index
Subject Individuality.
Language and languages.
Linguistics.
Self.
Sociolinguistics.
LC no. 95021703
ISBN 0195101847 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0195101855 (paperback: alk. paper)