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A Linguistic Study of American Punctuation

A Linguistic Study of American Punctuation - American University Studies.

Hardback (01 Dec 1987)

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Publisher's Synopsis

A Linguistic Study of American Punctuation is the first full-length treatment of American punctuation that is descriptive rather than prescriptive. The book has two purposes: to detail the relationship between punctuation and linguistic structure (syntax, prosody, semantics, and pragmatics) and to describe how this relationship affected the practice of punctuation in a collection of written texts taken from the Brown University Corpus of American English.

Book information

ISBN: 9780820405223
Publisher: Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc.
Imprint: P. Lang
Pub date:
DEWEY: 421.54
DEWEY edition: 19
Language: English
Number of pages: 159
Weight: 300g