Sociolinguistic competence in the complimenting act of native chinese and american english speakers: A mirror of cultural value

Language and Speech

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 91-119

  Yu, Ming Chung ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NONE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Compliments; Cross cultural pragmatics; Data collection method; Speech acts; Universality

Indexed keywords

EID: 24944518838     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00238309050480010501     Document Type: Article

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