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Publication details [#58396]
O’ Neill, Gareth. 2014. Humming, whistling, singing, and yelling in Pirahã. Context and channels of communication in FDG. Pragmatics 24 (2) : 349–375. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
IPRA
Journal DOI
10.1075/prag
Annotation
This study describes the systematic impact of contextual factors on the form of linguistic expressions for the various Pirahã speech channels of communication within and spreading upon the framework of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG). The effects of the Pirahã speech channels for FDG and linguistic theory in the main are also explored.