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Publication details [#23293]

Argenter, Joan A. and Lluis Payrato. 1991. Towards a pragmatic approach to the study of languages in contact: Evidence from language contact cases in spain. Pragmatics 1 (4) : 465–480.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

grammatical borrowing | language interference | lexical borrowing

Language as a subject

Catalan | Spanish

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

It is argued that language contact may be productively tackled from a pragmatic viewpoint, i.e. by taking into account linguistic use in communication. Such a pragmatic perspective is applied to phonological and lexical borrowing from Spanish into Catalan.