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Publication details [#5309]

Kanngiesser, Siegfried. 1978. Modalitäten des Sprachprozesses I. In Habel, Christopher U. and Siegfried Kanngiesser, eds. Sprachdynamik und Sprachstruktur: Ansätze zur Sprachtheorie. M. Niemeyer. pp. 81–139.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

German

Keywords

conventionality | functionalism | language change | variability

Annotation

K. develops the principles of a functionalist theory of language, and inquires into a number of its aspects, focusing on levels of language conventionality, on 'language inhomogeneity', and on the diachronical perspective.