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Publication details [#25460]

Makepeace, G.H., S.J.R. Vicary and R. Vismans. 1993. An analysis of linguistic data based on social choice concepts. Journal of Pragmatics 19 (3) : 253–270.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

linguistics | modal particle | sentence type | social science

Language as a subject

Dutch

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

In this paper social choice techniques are applied to linguistic data (Dutch modal particles) to illuminate the problem of sentence ranking by a group of individuals.