Fried Mirjam, Östman Jan-Ola. Variation and Change: Pragmatic Perspectives

John Benjamins Publishing, 2010. — 288 p.The ten volumes of the Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, cultural, interactional, or discursive angles, this sixth volume focuses on the dynamic aspects of language and reviews the relevant developments in variationists and diachronic scholarship. The areas explored in the volume concern several general themes: specific methodological approaches, from comparative.