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In:Handbook of Pragmatics: 25th Annual Installment
Edited by Frank Brisard, Sigurd D’hondt, Pedro Gras and Mieke Vandenbroucke
[Handbook of Pragmatics 25] 2022
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The chronotope

 | Georgetown University
Published online: 18 November 2022
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https://doi.org/10.1075/hop.25.chr1
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • Bakhtin and the chronotope
  • The chronotope in linguistics and linguistic anthropology: Definitions
  • Chronotopes and identities
  • Chronotopes, scales and evaluations
  • Creation and circulation of chronotopes
  • Chronotopes in the digital world
  • Discussion
  • Summary
  • References
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