Style: Language Variation and Identity

by Nikolas Coupland

Book Overview

Style refers to ways of speaking - how speakers use the resource of language variation to make meaning in social encounters. This 2007 book develops a coherent theoretical approach to style in sociolinguistics, illustrated with copious examples. It explains how speakers project different social identities and create different social relationships through their style choices, and how speech-style and social context inter-relate. Style therefore refers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521618142
• ISBN13: 9780521618144
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 8.8"