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Punctuation in Context - Past and Present Perspectives

Punctuation in Context - Past and Present Perspectives

Hardcover

Series: Linguistic Insights, Book 263

Foreign Language GeneralLinguistics

ISBN10: 3034337906
ISBN13: 9783034337908
Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P
Published: Dec 18 2019
Pages: 308
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Punctuation is an integral element in writing and has been so for centuries. The present volume brings together approaches in linguistics, stylistics and other fields to highlight the rich repertoire of issues involved in the study of punctuation. The contributions to the book discuss the grammatical, pragmatic, rhetorical and stylistic functions of punctuation, such as encoding emotion, metalinguistic marking, foregrounding and paralinguistic indication. They also highlight the sensibility of punctuation to genre and the speech-writing continuum, as well as the important role punctuation plays for reader interpretation. They further demonstrate how punctuation conventions change in time. The data is drawn from English, with one investigation devoted to German.

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