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Publication details [#8442]

Schank, Gerd. 1980. Zu einigen Fällen des Artikelwegfalls in der deutschen Gegenwartssprache: Überlegungen zur sprachlichen Reduktion und zum 'simplified speech'. Grazer Linguistische Studien 11 (12) : 263–279.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
German

Annotation

The combination of such phenomena of language reduction or simplified language as the elision of the article in German along with the use of the infinitive in imperative function can show that infantilistic language reduction need not be a matter of chance or deficient competence but may very well be a perlocutionary strategy in specific types of texts such as advertising, headlines etc..