Publications

Publication details [#1234]

Beeman, William O. 1977. The hows and whys of Persian style: A pragmatic approach. In Fasold, Ralph W. and Roger W. Shuy, eds. Studies in language variation: Semantics, syntax, phonology, pragmatics, social situations, ethnographic approaches. Georgetown University Press. pp. 269–282.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

style | variability

Language as a subject

Farsi

Annotation

A programmatic paper, containing a plea for putting forward the question of 'why', and an illustration of the impact of this question on some instances of variation in Persian.