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Peer reviewedGrayshon, M. C. – Language in Society, 1975
As an example leading toward a social grammar of language, three emotions are analyzed in English and Yoruba. Certain communication features in English that lie in intonation and stress require a change of grammar in Yoruba and that these changes are subject to further categorization through status and solidarity. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Grammar, Intonation
