Style and Social Identities

De Gruyter, 2007

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Why do languages allow us to say 'the same thing' in different ways? One of the answers is that in saying what we want to, we always position ourselves in social space as well, by speaking differently from relevant other social groups. This book explores how variability in language is exploited to perform this social identity work in interaction.

ISBN-13
9783110190809
ISBN-10
311019080X
Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2007
Publication date
2007-08-20
Pages
521
Dimensions
230x155x
Weight
882