9.3 Directions for further research
As stated in the limitations section above, the present study does not make any claims
that the two families featured are representative of their respective communities. This,
coupled with the assertion that differences in the two families’ pragmatic systems are
due to macro-social variables such as
ethnicity
and
socio-economic status
, points
towards the primary avenue for extension of the present study. In order to bridge the
social and ethnic divide between TravCorp and SettCorp, a logical first step would be to
build corpora that would connect them, as illustrated in Figure 9.1:
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