Language Varieties in the Rhetorics of Everyday Communication

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  • Marina Zorman University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Slovenia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3986/SLS.5.1.04

Keywords:

SLV, Slovenian language, discourse, speech act theory, rhetorics

Abstract

The paper explores two aspects of the choice of specific language variety and the juxtaposition of expressions from different varieties within spontaneous everyday communication, namely, the factors governing the speaker's selections and their communicative effects. It suggests that both strategies convey information about social identity and the psychological state of the speaker and serve to define the situation and indicate his attitude to other participants and to the topic of the discourse.

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2025-02-05

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Zorman, M. (2025). Language Varieties in the Rhetorics of Everyday Communication. Slovenski Jezik / Slovene Linguistic Studies, 5, 85–97. https://doi.org/10.3986/SLS.5.1.04

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Vol. 5 (2005)

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