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Dansieh, Solomon Ali. 2011. The pragmatics of reduplication: Implications for translating. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (1) : 164–174.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

Drawing on Sperber and Wilson's relevance theory of communication, this study explores which English structures are translatable as reduplicates in Dagaare, a Gur language of West Africa. It is an effort to switch from the conventional morphosyntactic perspective to a pragmatic/translation approach.