To claim or not to claim? An analysis of the politeness of self-evaluation in a corpus of French corporate brochures

Multilingua

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 171-190

  Mclaren, Yvonne ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 34247553162     PISSN: 01678507     EISSN: 16133684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/MULTI.2001.008     Document Type: Article

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