Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
10460920 Language & Communication 2013 24 Pages PDF
Abstract
► Internally complex logograms model metapragmatic structure in various scripts. ► Modernist and Tang poetry provide good case studies with explicit theoretical texts. ► No explicit metapragmatics (viz. commentaries) in earlier Sumerian literature. ► Diagrammatic form of complex logograms acts in place of explicit metapragmatics.
Related Topics
Social Sciences and Humanities Arts and Humanities Language and Linguistics
Authors
,