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Publication details [#6395]

Lyons, John. 1979. Pronouns of address in 'Anna Karenina': The stylistics of bilingualism and the impossibility of translation. In Greenbaum, Sidney, Geoffrey N. Leech and Jan Svartvik, eds. Studies in English linguistics for Randolph Quirk. Longman. pp. 235–249.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | indeterminacy of translation | pronoun | terms of address

Annotation

A study of the semantic load that can be borne by a simple grammatical distinction and of the way in which an author can exploit the differences between two language-systems, both of which are available, in certain situations, to the members of a speech community.