Codes and Consequences by Carol Myers-Scotton
This edited volume examines the implications of the phenomenon known as codeswitching, where, in given situations, different people with access to the same linguistic repertoire (or one person in different situations) will sometimes make very different linguistic choices. Employing Myers-Scotton's concept of "markedness" the contributors examine codeswitching in situations like everyday conversation, literary texts, sermons, and others to show the underlying social subtexts of the choices people make.Carol Myers-Scotton is the Carolina Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of South Carolina where she teaches courses in sociolinguistics, language contact phenomena, and discourse analysis. She has published widely on codeswitching and is the author of Social Motivations for
Codeswitching: Evidence from Africa (OUP, 1993) and Duelling Languages: Grammatical Structure in Codeswitching (OUP, 1993).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195115222 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195115228 |
| Title | Codes and Consequences |
| Author | Carol Myers-Scotton |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 1998-09-24 |
| Number of pages | 232 |
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