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Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change provides a comprehensive examination of how pragmatic meanings vary across communities and shift over time. The collection brings together leading researchers to investigate the mechanisms driving pragmatic change, from contact-induced phenomena to internal linguistic innovations.
The book addresses key questions about the nature of pragmatic variation, the role of language contact in facilitating change, and the theoretical frameworks needed to understand discourse-pragmatic systems. Contributors explore case studies from diverse languages and communities, demonstrating how pragmatic features emerge, spread, and become conventionalized.
Essential for scholars of sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and pragmatics, this work offers valuable insights into the dynamic nature of language use and the cognitive foundations underlying discourse organization.
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