The Linguistic Individual : Self-Expression in Language and Linguistics.
Title:
The Linguistic Individual : Self-Expression in Language and Linguistics.
Author:
Johnstone, Barbara.
ISBN:
9780195356335
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (230 pages)
Series:
Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
Contents:
Contents -- CHAPTER 1 Discourse, Society, and the Individual -- Aaahh... -- The Physical Voice -- Linguistics and the Individual -- Discourse Analysis -- CHAPTER 2 Resources and Reasons for Individual Style -- Two Stories -- Creating a Context -- Narrating -- Moving In and Out of the Narrative -- Marking Key Points -- Reasons for Variation -- Narrative and Individuation -- CHAPTER 3 Individual Voice and Articulate Speaking -- Articulateness and Self-Expression -- Two Articulate Voices -- Readiness -- Clarity -- Effectiveness -- Two Self-Portraits -- Loci for the Expression of Self in Academic English -- Social Identity, Rhetorical Adaptation, and Personal Style -- CHAPTER 4 Individual Variation in Scripted Talk -- The Texas Poll -- Individual Variation Among the Respondents -- Justifications of Answers -- Answers to an Open-Ended Question -- Answers to a Multiple-Choice Question -- What Were the Respondents Doing? -- Individual Variation Among the Interviewers -- Unsolicited Comments on Answers -- Introductions -- What Were the Interviewers Doing? -- Politeness in Scripted Talk -- Discourse Task Management -- Cultural Individualism and Linguistic Individuation -- CHAPTER 5 Consistency and Individual Style -- The Barbara Jordan Style -- The Texts: Two Case Studies -- Linguistic Correlates of Personal Authority -- Barbara Jordan: Speaking Consistently from Moral Authority -- Sunny Nash: Inconsistency and Pragmatic Flexibility -- Strategies for Personal Style -- CHAPTER 6 Idiosyncracy and Its Interpretation -- Discourse Markers and Conventional Interpretations -- Strategies for Discourse Marking -- So: Conventional Marking and Interpretation -- One time in particular: Semiconventional Marking, Semantic Inference -- And uh, uh: Nonconventional, Uninferable Marking -- Repetition and the Interpretation of Idiosyncracy.
Grammar, Convention, and Repetition -- CHAPTER 7 Toward a Linguistics of the Individual Speaker -- Language as Art -- Major Themes Reiterated -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
Linguists usually discuss language or dialects in terms of groups of speakers. Believing that patterns can be seen more clearly in the group than the individual, researchers often present group scores with no indication of the variation within the group. Even though linguists acknowledge that no two individuals speak alike, few study individual variation and voice. Barbara Johnstone makes a case for the individual's importance and idiosyncrasies in language and linguistics. Using theoretical arguments and discourse analysis, along with linguistic examples from a variety of speakers and settings, Johnstone illustrates how speakers draw on linguistic models associated with class, ethnicity, gender, and region, among others, to construct an individual voice. In doing so Johnstone shows that certain important questions in sociolinguistics and pragmatics can only be answered with reference to individual speakers. Johnstone's study is important both for the understanding of speech as expressive of self, and for the study of variation and mechanisms of linguistic choice and change.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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