Language and social relations
"Language connects people to each other in social relationships and allows them to participate in a variety of activities in everyday life. This original study explores the role of language in various domains of our social life, including identity, gender, class, kinship, deference, status, hie...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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| Series: | Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language ;
no. 24. |
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| Online Access: | View fulltext via EzAccess MyiLibrary ebrary Cambridge Books Online |
Table of Contents:
- Reflexivity
- From referring to registers
- Register formations
- The social life of cultural value
- Regrouping identity
- Registers of person deixis
- Honorific registers
- Norm and trope in kinship behavior.