The relationship between language, discourse and identity has always been a major area of sociolinguistic investigation. In more recent times, the field has been revolutionized as previous models - which assumed our identities to be based on stable relationships between linguistic and social variab
Discourse Strategies (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics)
β Scribed by John J. Gumperz
- Year
- 1982
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 237
- Category
- Library
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