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Publication details [#4136]

Gumperz, John J. and Deborah F. Tannen. 1979. Individual and social differences in language use. In Fillmore, Charles J., Daniel Kempler and William S.-Y. Wang, eds. Individual differences in language ability and language behavior. Academic Press. pp. 305–325.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative failure | idiolect | sociolect

Annotation

A primarily methodological paper inquiring into the distinction between individual and social (group-) differences in language use. The method is based on the investigation of miscommunications as they appear in conversational inference.