The Linguistic Individual: Self-Expression in Language and Linguistics (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics)

by Barbara Johnstone (Author)

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  1996

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  An examination of various discourse genres, showing how choices among linguistic resources are mediated by self-expressive choices. Linguistic consistency across various situations is discussed with the question of how, if language is fundamentally idiosyncratic, people can understand one another.