{"product_id":"codes-and-consequences-choosing-linguistic-varieties-9780195115222","title":"Codes and Consequences: Choosing Linguistic Varieties","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Carol Myers-Scotton\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Linguistics - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarol Myers-Scotton has edited a collection of essays that covers the choice of one style of English over another in everything from Bible translations to \"surprise in poetry\" to supervisor-worker interactions on the automobile assembly line. An important theme developed to varying degrees in these papers is the notion that speakers and writers, as rational actors, exploit the unmarked-marked opposition regarding audience expectations so as to convey messages of intentionality charged with social or psychological import.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46897152884887,"sku":"9780195115222","price":14981.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780195115222.webp?v=1770361374","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/codes-and-consequences-choosing-linguistic-varieties-9780195115222","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}