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Publication details [#54976]

Erickson, Frederick. 2011. From speech as “situated” to speech as “situating”: insights from John Gumperz on the practical conduct of talk as social action. Text & Talk 31 (4) : 395–406.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-switching | contextualization | creativity | language use | style switching

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/TEXT/html

Annotation

Reviewing Gumperz's visions on language switching, dialect switching, register shifts, this study emphasizes how Gumperz demonstrated speakers' creative language use. Via speech style changes, interlocutors could be seen to be reframing their social relations, and altering their social situations.