Codes and Consequences: Choosing Linguistic Varieties

by Carol Myers-Scotton

Book Overview

This collection of essays considers how messages of intentionality are conveyed by choosing one style of English over another. While these choices are not necessarily conscious, implicit in the communicative competence of a speaker, performer, or writer is an awareness of the consequences of their choice of linguistic code. Messages of intentionality thus go beyond the referential content of the conversational turn, performance, or literary work...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195115236
• ISBN13: 9780195115239
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"