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Publication details [#51140]

Preston, Dennis R. and Nancy Niedzielski. 2007. Folk pragmatics. In Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren, eds. Handbook of Pragmatics. 2007 Installment. John Benjamins.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

folk language | language attitude | linguistics | pragmatic competence | pragmatics

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

Annotation

This essay deals with folk linguistics and folk pragmatics as a subcategory of folk linguistics. Folk Linguistics aims to discover and analyze beliefs about and attitudes towards language at every level of linguistic production, perception, and cognitive embedding by collecting and examining overt comment about it by non-linguists.