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Publication details [#39069]

Prince, Ellen. 1988. On pragmatic change: The borrowing of discourse functions. Journal of Pragmatics 12 (4) : 505–518.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

borrowing | discourse | function | pragmatics

Language as a subject

English | Slavic | Yiddisch

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This paper demonstrates the occurence of pragmatic borrowing, listing evidence that one language -in casu Yiddish, and a nonstandard dialect of English- may borrow the discourse functions of a particular syntactic form from another language -in casu respectively Slavic and Yiddish-.