Testing Brown and Levinson's theory in a corpus of spontaneous conversational data from Cypriot Greek

International Journal of the Sociology of Language

Volumn , Issue 168, 2004, Pages 119-134

  Terkourafi, Marina ^a  

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EID: 34247676683     PISSN: 01652516     EISSN: 16133668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/ijsl.2004.027     Document Type: Article

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