English or Spanish?! Language accommodation in New York City service encounters

Intercultural Pragmatics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 29-53

  Callahan, Laura ^a  

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EID: 34248702970     PISSN: 1612295X     EISSN: 1613365X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/IP.2006.002     Document Type: Article

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