Moore E. Sociolinguistic Style: A Multidimensional Resource for Shared Identity Creation

The Canadian Journal of Linguistics 49 (3/4) 2004. 23 p.The author challenges the traditional notion of style as a unidimensional concept and provide support for its reinterpretation as a multidimensional
entity. Critique of the traditional approach to stylistic analysis focuses on its tendency to over-emphasise the taxonomic distinction between social and
stylistic variation—a tendency which serves to decontextualise sociolinguistic behaviour.