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Idiomaticity and functional variation: A case study of international amateur radio talk

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Dafydd Gibbon
Dafydd Gibbon
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University of Göttingen
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The linguistic domain of idiomaticity poses many problems for the study of language form, use, and variation. With selected aspects of idiomaticity as a starting point, I will attempt in this paper to develop a description of the use of idioms as a segment of a more general theory of language use. Evidence for this approach is drawn from international amateur radio talk (IART) in English.

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Language in Society , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , April 1981 , pp. 21 - 42
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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