formal speech

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Sources

• TRUDGILL 1974 111

  TRUDGILL, Peter. (1974) Sociolinguistics: An Introduction. London: Penguin Books.

• SAVILLE-TROIKE 1982 42 (formal speech situation; also "formal language")

  SAVILLE-TROIKE, Muriel. (1982) The Ethnography of Communication: An Introduction. Baltimore: University Park Press.

• HARTMANN & STORK 1972 87

  HARTMANN, R.R.K. & STORK, F.C. (1972) Dictionary of Language and Linguistics. London: Applied Science Publishers.

• ONISHI 1981 203 (formal style of speech)

  ONISHI, Masao. (1981) A Grand Dictionary of Phonetics. Tokyo: The Phonetic Society of Japan. 

• PEI & GAYNOR 1954 75

  PEI, Mario A. & GAYNOR, Frank. (1954) A Dictionary of Linguistics. New York : Philosophical Library.

• NASH 1968 84 (formal speech style)

  NASH, Rose. (1968) Multilingual Lexicon of Linguistics and Philology: English, Russian, German, French. Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press. 

• SAMARIN 1967 126

  SAMARIN, William J. (1967) Field Linguistics: A Guide to Linguistic Field Work. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Wilson.

• AKMAJIAN etal. 1984 298

  AKMAJIAN, Adrian, DEMERS, Richard A., & HARNISH, Robert M. (1984) Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication, 2nd Ed. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

• RICHARDS etal. 1992 144

  RICHARDS, Jack, PLATT, J. & WEBER, H. (1992) Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching & Applied Linguistics. London: Longman.