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Textual Parameters in Older Languages.

Textual Parameters in Older Languages takes a contemporary approach to the inherent limitations of using older texts as data for linguistic analysis, drawing on methods of text analysis, pragmatics and sociolinguistics to supplement traditional historical and philological methods. The focus of the b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Herring, Susan C.
Otros Autores: Reenen, Pieter van, Schøsler, Lene
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Textual Parameters in Older Languages takes a contemporary approach to the inherent limitations of using older texts as data for linguistic analysis, drawing on methods of text analysis, pragmatics and sociolinguistics to supplement traditional historical and philological methods. The focus of the book is on the importance of controlling for textual parameters-defined by the editors as dimensions of variation associated with texts and their production, including text type, degree of poeticality, orality, and dialect-in the analysis of older language data. Failure to do so can result in invalid.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (467 pages)
ISBN:9789027299604
9027299609