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Publication details [#7159]

Ochs, Elinor. 1979. Social foundations of language. In Freedle, Roy O., ed. New directions in discourse processing. Ablex Publishing Company. pp. 207–221.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

social context

Annotation

An attempt to show an adequate theory of language must concern itself with the social aspect of language, in order to be able to account for its grammatical structure.