"Moral irony": Modal particles, moral persons and indirect stance-taking in sakapultek discourse

Pragmatics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 297-335

  Shoaps, Robin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Footing; Irony; Mayan languages; Modality; Personhood; Stance

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547795358     PISSN: 10182101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/prag.17.2.05sho     Document Type: Article

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