Date: 19-Dec-2007 From: Julia Ulrich <julia.ulrichdegruyter.com> Subject: Sprachliche Kürze: Bär, Roelcke, Steinhauer (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Sprachliche Kürze
Subtitle: Konzeptuelle, strukturelle und pragmatische Aspekte
Series Title: Linguistik - Impulse & Tendenzen 27
Published: 2007
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
http://www.mouton-publishers.com
Editor: Jochen A. Bär
Editor: Thorsten Roelcke
Editor: Anja Steinhauer
Hardback: ISBN: 9783110175424 Pages: 520 Price: Europe EURO 98.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9783110175424 Pages: 520 Price: U.S. $ 137.00 Comment: for orders placed in North America
Abstract:
This collected volume is devoted to a comprehensive treatment of the subject of "linguistic brevity." The themes include aspects of language economy, communication theory, shortened words in various European languages, brevity in word-formation and syntax, rhetoric and stylistics, brevity as a principle in giving personal first names. The volumes contains contributions by renowned authors and gives overviews of research as well as presenting novel approaches. This hitherto unique volume presents an almost encyclopaedic account illuminating the varying dimensions of a complex area.
Keywords Abbreviation; pragmatics (language); linguistic expressions; language typology
Readership Academics, Institutes, Librairies
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Linguistic Field(s):
General Linguistics
Phonology
Pragmatics
Sociolinguistics