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Publication details [#23295]
Meeuwis, Michael. 1991. A pragmatic perspective on contact-induced language change: Dynamics in interlinguistics. Pragmatics 1 (4) : 481–515. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Journal DOI
10.1075/prag
Annotation
An application of Verschueren's pragmatic framework (1987: 'Pragmatics as a theory of linguistic adaptation') to contact-induced language change. The problem of the temporal dimension is confronted, as well as the relationship between micro- and macro-processes.