Publications

Publication details [#14761]

Johnstone, Barbara and Judith Mattson Bean. 1997. Self-expression and linguistic variation. Language in Society 26 (2) : 221–246.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language variation | public speech | self-expression

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

Observing that language use is by definition idiosyncratic and syncretic, a case is made for the role of self-expression in accounts of language variation and the study of public speech mode in comparison with vernacular modes of speaking.