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Publication details [#7868]

Rath, Rainer. 1979. Strukturelle Aspekte und kommunikative Funktion sprachlicher Verkürzungen. Grazer Linguistische Studien 10 : 217–239.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
German

Annotation

Structural reductions should be seen not only as satisfying an economic principle of language use but also as a means of creating tension and/or stressing a point and, last but not least, as a device of intensifying partner relationship. Reductions strongly rely on and signalize mutual understanding of the co- and contextual facts.