Some Aspects of Social Grammar Features of One Type of Question in English and Yoruba.

Grayshon, M. C.

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Publication Date: 1975

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Some Aspects of Social Grammar Features of One Type of Question in English and Yoruba

Grayshon, M. C.

Language in Society, 4, 1, 17-29, Apr 75

As an example leading toward a social grammar of language, three emotions are analyzed in English and Yoruba. Certain communication features in English that lie in intonation and stress require a change of grammar in Yoruba and that these changes are subject to further categorization through status and solidarity. (Author/RM)

Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Grammar, Intonation, Language Variation, Paralinguistics, Socioeconomic Status, Sociolinguistics, Stress (Phonology), Suprasegmentals, Tone Languages, Yoruba

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