Investigating "self-conscious" speech: The performance register in Ocracoke English

Language in Society

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 53-83

  Schilling Estes, Natalie ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ocracoke; Performance speech; Register; Self conscious speech; Style shifting; Stylistic variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031617846     PISSN: 00474045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0047404500019722     Document Type: Article

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