Style-shifting in public : new perspectives on stylistic variation / edited by Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy, Juan Antonio Cutillas-Espinosa.

Language acts are acts of identity, and linguistic variation reflects the multifaceted construction of verbal alternatives for transmitting social meaning, where style-shifting represents our ability to take up different social positions due to its potential for linguistic performance, rhetorical st...

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Other Authors: Hernández Campoy, Juan Manuel, Cutillas-Espinosa, Juan Antonio
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012.
Series:Studies in language variation ; v. 9.
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