Publications

Publication details [#53539]

Martin, Nathaël, Jean-Pierre Chevrot and Stéphanie Barbu. 2010. Stylistic variations in the social network of a 10-year-old child: Pragmatic adjustments or automatic alignment? Journal of Sociolinguistics 14 (5) : 678–692.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child | pragmatic function | social network | sociolinguistics | stylistics

Language as a subject

French

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This sociolinguistic case study reveals that the French stylistic variation of a 10-year-old boy, used within his social network, is affected by pragmatic motivations yet not by automatic alignment.