Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10460920 | Language & Communication | 2013 | 24 Pages |
Abstract
⺠Internally complex logograms model metapragmatic structure in various scripts. ⺠Modernist and Tang poetry provide good case studies with explicit theoretical texts. ⺠No explicit metapragmatics (viz. commentaries) in earlier Sumerian literature. ⺠Diagrammatic form of complex logograms acts in place of explicit metapragmatics.
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Authors
J. Cale Johnson,