"you pays your money"

Wed Aug 15 21:00:41 UTC 2007

On Aug 15, 2007, at 12:24 PM, Beverly Flanigan wrote:

> ... they should be able to tell it isn't authentic
> in me but is used for effect (what Gumperz, I think, calls "metaphoric
> code-switching").

J. P. Blom & J. J. Gumperz, Code-switching in Norway, in Dell Hymes,
Directions  in Sociolinguist0ics (1972)

> Our friend dinis, on the other hand, can apparently get
> away with this more than I can, assuming leveling etc. are part of his
> authentic childhood (and adult?) voice.

ah, but dInIs has Linguistic License (issued to him, i believe, forty
years ago in wisconsin).

arnold

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