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THE CAREFUL AND CASUAL SPEECH OF FACTORY WORKERS 1
Author(s) -
Tway Patricia
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
studia linguistica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.187
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1467-9582
pISSN - 0039-3193
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9582.1976.tb00636.x
Subject(s) - casual , jargon , factory (object oriented programming) , psychology , order (exchange) , linguistics , computer science , business , political science , philosophy , finance , law , programming language
Summary This article is concerned with the speech styles used by factory workers. It is part of a larger exploratory and descriptive study of occupational jargon. Samples of the careful and casual speech of 151 workers from all occupational levels in the factory are presented. A comparison is made between the two speech styles of the workers in order to determine which linguistic forms change, in what ways and under what conditions they change and who changes them.