Wh-interrogative formats used for questioning and beyond: German warum (why) and wieso (why) and English why

Discourse Studies

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 17-36

  Egbert, Maria ^a,b   Vge, Monika ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Affiliation; Business meetings; Complaints; Conversation analysis; Cross linguistic comparison; Hierarchy

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949147167     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445607085583     Document Type: Article

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