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Samarin, William J. 1978. Linguistic adaptation to speech function. In McCormack, William C. and Stephen A. Wurm, eds. Approaches to language: Anthropological issues. Mouton. pp. 595–614.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
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S. demonstrates that expressiveness or affect is not just a function of individual psychology and behavior in unconscious and manipulated or edited speech. It is not merely manifested in pragmatics, but in language structure. Languages differ significantly in the way they realize this universal function.