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Lakoff, Robin Tolmach. 1974. Linguistic theory and the real world. Berkeley studies in Syntax and Semantics 1 (18) : 1–53.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
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L. argues that linguistics, if it wants to be adequate or interesting, has to come to grips with real-world phenomena such as the intent and effect of communication, questions of morality, problems of second-language learning, language pathology, stylistics, advertising, propaganda, etc.
