Seldom Ask, Never Tell
Subtitle: Labor and Discourse in Appalachia (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 25)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: October 16, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780195102772
First sentence: A foreman of a local work crew very rarely used any speech form but task-focused imperatives with his crew, in keeping with cultural rules of imperative uses