Genre conventions, speaker identities, and creativity: An analysis of Japanese wedding speeches

Pragmatics

Volumn 15, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 205-228

  Dunn, Cynthia Dickel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conventionalization; Genre; Genre colonization; Japanese discourse; Social roles

Indexed keywords

EID: 27144508369     PISSN: 10182101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/prag.15.2-3.03dun     Document Type: Article

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