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Publication details [#41860]
Slembrouck, Stef. 1996. Channel. In Östman, Jan-Ola, Jef Verschueren, Jan Blommaert and Chris Bulcaen, eds. Handbook of Pragmatics.1995 Installment. John Benjamins.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
John Benjamins
Annotation
This essay, organized around channel (rather than medium) of communication, suggests
that one should consider in detail how one may possibly benefit from an examination of the sociohistorically changing dialectic between communication channels on the one hand, and the nature of institutionalized forms of language use, on the other.