"you pays your money"

[Beverly Flanigan]

Thanks.  I taught that article for years but couldn't recall which of many
Gumperz pieces gave the definition.  (It's shifty anyway; Fishman defines
it differently, I believe.)  And thanks too for the transcription
correction; of course it's dInIs!

BTW, when I define the term, I sometimes quote an example from Larry Horn,
who once on this list used both "sho' nuff" and "mutatis mutandis" in the
same comment!  Half the class doesn't understand the first one, and no one
understands the second.

Beverly

At 05:00 PM 8/15/2007, you wrote:
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>On Aug 15, 2007, at 12:24 PM, Beverly Flanigan wrote:
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> > ... 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)
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> > 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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