Arabic and English compliment responses: Potential for pragmatic failure

Applied Linguistics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 411-432

  Nelson, Gayle L ^a   Al Batal, Mahmoud ^a   Echols, Erin ^a  

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DOI: 10.1093/applin/17.4.411     Document Type: Article

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