Intra-Style Shifting and Linguistic Variation in Guyanese Speech  

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Edwards, Walter F.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 27 no. 1 (1985), page 86-93.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/ALI/27 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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This paper makes the point that linguistic forms(both lexical and grammatical items) are socially evaluated by speakers in communities and used according to their culturally known value systems. To support its thesis the paper analyzes three sociolinguistic variables in Guyanese speech: subject mi, habitual marker a and progressive marker a. The variants of-- these variables are shown to stretch across a linguistic continuum which displays linguistic regularities. This regularity is contradicted by the significantly different evaluations that speakers give to forms which have very similar linguistic stat- uses. Differences of social evaluation contribute to the intricate patternings which constitute a society's sociolinguistic culture.

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