The discourse of classified advertising: exploring the nature of linguistic simplicity
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1. Verfasser: Bruthiaux, Paul (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press 1996
Schriftenreihe:Oxford studies in sociolinguistics
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-203) and index
1 Theoretical issues; 2 Situating the corpus; 3 Syntactic elaboration; 4 Conventionalization; 5 Functional variation; 6 Classified advertising in its linguistic context; Appendix A: Summary of features of linguistic simplification; Appendix B: Corpus selection criteria; Appendix C: Glossary of abbreviations; Appendix D: Test of editorial interference in Recycler ads; Notes; References; Index
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 800 ads from four categories: automobile sales, apartments for rent, help wanted, and personal ads. Bruthiaux's thesis is that strict, uniform constraints on space should result in uniformly simple texts, no matter which category they are in, and that an
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ISBN:1423740475
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1602560773
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