Leaky registers and eight-hundred-pound gorillas

Anthropological Quarterly

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 15-40

  Irvine, Judith T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Codeswitching; Discourse; Interaction; Politeness; Regimes of language; Register; Verbal taboo

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951886860     PISSN: 00035491     EISSN: 15341518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/anq.2011.0011     Document Type: Article

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