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Punctuation in Context – Past and Present Perspectives

Merja Kytö editor Claudia Claridge editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

Published:18th Dec '19

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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.

ISBN: 9783034337908

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 509g

308 pages

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