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Title Variation and change : pragmatic perspectives / edited by Mirjam Fried, Jan-Ola Östman, Jef Verschueren
Published Amsterdam, the Netherlands ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (x, 275 pages) : illustrations
Series Handbook of pragmatics highlights ; v. 6
Handbook of pragmatics highlights ; v. 6.
Contents Variation and Change; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; Borrowing; Contact linguistics; Creoles and creolization; Dialect; Dialectology; Evolutionary pragmatics; Historical linguistics; Historical pragmatics; Implicature and language change; Interlanguage pragmatics; Jargon; Language change; Language contact; Reconstruction; Register; Typology; Variational pragmatics; Index; The series Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights
Summary The ten volumes of the Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, cultural, interactional, or discursive angles, this sixth volume focuses on the dynamic aspects of language and reviews the relevant developments in variationist and diachronic scholarship. The areas explored in the volume concern several general themes: specific methodological approaches, from comparative reconstr
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Language and languages -- Variation.
Linguistic change.
Pragmatics.
pragmatics.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Ancient Languages.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Historical & Comparative.
Language and languages -- Variation
Linguistic change
Pragmatics
Form Electronic book
Author Fried, Mirjam
Östman, Jan-Ola
Verschueren, Jef
LC no. 2010036643
ISBN 9789027289179
9027289174
1282897381
9781282897380
9786612897382
6612897384