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Publication details [#4122]

Gumperz, John J. 1978. Dialect and conversational inference in urban communication. Language in Society 7 (3) : 393–409.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
conversation | culture | inference | language variety | lexical meaning | prosody | syntax1 | urban community
Journal WWW
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Annotation

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.

Reprints

Gumperz, John J. 1982. In Gumperz, John J. Discourse strategies. Cambridge University Press. pp. 187–203.