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Publication details [#30522]

Macaulay, Ronald. 2002. Extremely interesting, very interesting, or only quite interesting? Adverbs and social class. Journal of Sociolinguistics 6 (3) : 398–417.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adverbial | audience | social class | speech

Place, Publisher

Blackwell Publishers

ISBN

1360-6441

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/josl

Annotation

This study confirms the existence of stable differences in speech styles between middle- and working-class speakers, reflecting different speaker attitudes toward the audience, for instance a significantly higher middle-class use of adverbs in -ly.