Analysing the language of discourse communities / / Joan Cutting.

• VerfasserIn: Cutting, Joan,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, New York, New York : : Elsevier,, [2000]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

This text describes how the language used in social interaction evolves from the time the speakers first meet and becomes the in-group code of a given discourse community (in this case the academic community). Most studies reported in the literature of the language of groups and intimates until now...

Table of Contents

• Part headings: Theory and Methodology
• The In-Group
• Knowledge Areas
• Grammar of the In-Group Code
• Lexis of the In-Group Code
• Implicitness over Utterences
• Function
• Further Study
• Appendices
• References.