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Devitt, Amy J. 1989. Genre as texual variable: some historical evidence from Scots and American English. American Speech 64 (4) : 291. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN
0003-1283
Annotation
This paper employs Scots-English genres between 1529 and 1659 and English genres in the U.S. between 1640 and 1810, to examine the significance of genre as textual variable.