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Publication details [#14804]
Schilling-Estes, Natalie. 1998. Investigating "self-conscious" speech: The performance register in Ocracoke English. Language in Society 27 (1) : 53–83. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
0047-4045
Journal WWW
Annotation
Due to contact with non-islanders, PERFORMANCE SPEECH highlighting certain island features has developed in the Ocracoke community. This article addresses issues relating to patterning regularities, speaker perception, and the proactive nature of style-shifting of the performance register.