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Publication details [#56319]
Slotta, James. 2012. Dialect, trope, and enregisterment in a Melanesian speech community. Language & Communication 32 (1) : 1–13. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper examines the enregisterment of dialect cues among the Yopno of Papua New Guinea. Although many works on enregisterment highlight the part played by explicit metapragmatic discourse in this process, this paper foregrounds the important role of tropes in the implicit metapragmatic discourse structuring.