confused by style shiftingggggggggg!!

[Christina Paulston]

I think Mostari  deserves a response  -- did anyone write him a  
response? Christina



On May 5, 2009, at 3:03 PM, mostari hind wrote:

>
> hi everybody ,
> while teaching today the concept of style shifting to my graduate  
> students , I felt a somehow confusion , in fact , when speaking  
> about style shifting , we refer to differences in styles but does it  
> lead to the change of language like speaking the local dialect for  
> informal style and moving to the standard form ( which is  
> genetically related to the local dialect) in formal settings .
> this really confuses me, because if we possibly move from one  
> languagto another while style shifting, so here , we can also speak  
> about code switching between 2 varieties of the same language .
> need answers
> all the best
> Mostari
> Algeria
> ---
>

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