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Schneider, Klaus P. and Anne Barron. 2008. Where pragmatics and dialectology meet: Introducing variational pragmatics. In Schneider, Klaus P. and Anne Barron, eds. Variational Pragmatics. A focus on regional varieties in pluricentric languages. (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 178). John Benjamins. pp. 1–32.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
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Place, Publisher
John Benjamins
Annotation
This paper introduces the new field of variational pragmatics, situated at the interface of pragmatics and dialectology and aiming at systematically investigating the effect of macro-social pragmatic variation on language in action.