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The Discourse of Classified Advertising: Exploring the Nature of Linguistic Simplicity (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics)
The Discourse of Classified Advertising Exploring the Nature of Linguistic Simplicity - Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
Author: Paul Bruthiaux, Oxford University Press, Oxford Univ Pr
Linguists who have studied simplified varieties of a given language, such as pidgins or the language of care-givers, have tended to explain similarities in their structure by the fact that they use the same mechanisms of simplification. Bruthiaux tests this idea by looking at the structure of classified ads in American English, using a body of 8...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195100327
ISBN-10: 0195100328
Publication Date: 6/6/1996
Pages: 208
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