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Handbook of Pragmatics: 22nd Annual Installment
Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren
[Handbook of Pragmatics 22] 2019
► pp. 225–236

Transience

| Roskilde University
| University of Copenhagen
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Disciplinary triage
  • 3.Transience and the study of language and social life
  • 4.Transience as a complexifying heuristic
  • 5.Closing remarks
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
Published online: 23 December 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/hop.22.tra4
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