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Hickey, Leo. 1989. The style of topicalization, how formal is it? In Hickey, Leo, ed. The pragmatics of style. Routledge. pp. 52–70.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject

Annotation

H. examines how style, as perceived on the formal-informal scale, is affected by the pragmatic factor of the identification and announcement of what is to be talked about within certain types of utterance, and exemplifies this from a Spanish corpus.