Socioeconomic Pragmatic Variation: Speech acts and address forms in context
Larssyn Staley
On a regular basis people encounter unfamiliar uses of pragmatic features, such as offers or requests with differing levels of directness or terms of address showing differing amounts of solidarity or deference. Variational pragmatics is the study of such uses, according to region, gender, age,… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 291] 2018. xiv, 201 pp.