Styles of Language Use: Individual and Cultural Variability in Conversational Indirectness

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 624-637

  Holtgraves, Thomas ^a  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0031502762     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.73.3.624     Document Type: Article

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