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Gumperz, John J. 1978. Dialect and conversational inference in urban communication. Language in Society 7 (3) : 393–409.
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Article in journal
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English

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Conversational inference is shown to depend not only on grammar, lexical meaning and conversational principles, but also on constellations of speech variants, rhythm, and prosody which may persist as symbols of shared cultural background.

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