Codes and consequences
Subtitle: choosing linguistic varieties
By: edited by Carol Myers-Scotton.
Contributors: Myers-Scotton, Carol.
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
Subjects: English language -- Discourse analysis; English language -- Social aspects; English language -- Variation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A theoretical introduction to the markedness model / Carol Myers-Scotton; title: Implicatures of styleswitching in the narrative voice of Cormac McCarthy's All the pretty horses / Nancy Kreml; title: Marked grammatical structures / Carol Myers-Scotton; title: Markedness and references to characters in Biblical Hebrew narratives / Timothy Wilt; title: Literariness, markedness, and surprise in poetry / Amittai F. Aviram; title: Villainous boys / Trevor Howard-Hill; title: Markedness and styleswitching in performances by African American drag queens / Rusty Barrett; title: Styleswitching in southern English / Margaret Mishoe; title: Marked versus unmarked choices on the auto factory floor / Janice Bernsten; title: Not quite right / Mary Sue Sroda.