A comparative study of certainty and conventional indirectness: Evidence from British English and Peninsular Spanish

Applied Linguistics

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-31

  Reiter, Rosina Márquez ^a   Rainey, Isobel ^b   Fulcher, Glenn ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 24144488651     PISSN: 01426001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/applin/amh018     Document Type: Article

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