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The Linguistic Individual: Self- Expression in Language and Linguistics

Johnstone, Barbara·1996
DOI 10.1093/oso/9780195101843.001.0001
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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 they all acknowledge that no two individuals speak alike, few study individual variation and voice. The individual has always been thought to be outside the purview of linguistic theory. Johnstone makes the case for the importance of the role of the individual, and the individual ‘s idiosyncrasies, in language and linguistics. Using theoretical arguments and discourse analysis, along with linguistic examples from a wide variety of speakers and settings, Johnstone illustrates how speakers draw on linguistic models associated with class, ethnicity, gender, region, among others, to construct individual ways of sounding. In doing so, she shows that certain important questions in sociolinguistics and pragmatics can only be fully answered with reference to individual speakers. Her study is important not only for the understanding of speech as expressive of self, but for the study of variation and the mechanisms of linguistic choice and change.

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Authors
Johnstone, B.
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Johnstone, Barbara
ORCID
Johnstone, Barbara
Publisher
Oxford University PressNew York, NY
Published
1996-06-27
DOI
10.1093/oso/9780195101843.001.0001
OpenAlex
W4388346330
Cited by
292
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11.05
Type
book
Language
en
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closed
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Linguistic Variation and Morphology
  • Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
Keywords
voice, idiosyncrasy, language choice, language change, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, ethnicity, gender, regional variation, linguistic models

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