Acts ot identity: - Second edition with additional commentsWith every speech act all individuals perform, to a greater or less extent, an ‘act of identity’, revealing through their personal use of language their sense of social and ethnic solidarity or difference. Yet at the same time people also have powerful (if unconscious) stereotypes about the norms ans standards of their own language and those of others – often at variance with observable behaviour... |
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Acts of identity: Creole-based approaches to language and ethnicity Robert Brock Le Page,Andrée Tabouret-Keller No preview available - 2006 |
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