Towards a Contrastive Pragmatics: Syntactic Choice in English and French Instructions

Language Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 897-931

  Delin, Judy ^a   Hartley, Anthony ^a   Scott, Donia ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

English; French; Instructions; Pragmatics; Procedural Relations; Semantics; Syntactic Choice

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347307269     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0388-0001(96)00054-X     Document Type: Article

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