Language variation in diasporic texts: transparency or opacity?
This paper will examine the dialectic relationship between the saliency of linguistic varieties in discourse and their transparency. Transparency is here understood as the ease of access to semantic, pragmatic, cultural information. Diatopic, diastratic and diaphasic varieties are easily perceived b...
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