Agency and impersonality : their linguistic and cultural manifestations /

In this monograph the author probes the fundamental nature of the concept of agency and its importance to human language and cognition. Whereas previous studies focused on grammatical manifestations this original work addresses such issues as the strong relationship between agency and responsibility...

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Main Author: Yamamoto, Mutsumi, 1942-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2006
Series:Studies in language companion series ; v. 78.
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