The intonation of please-requests: A corpus-based study

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1521-1549

  Wichmann, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitudinal meaning; Corpus linguistics; Intonation; Politeness; Prosody; Requests

Indexed keywords

EID: 4344691613     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2004.03.003     Document Type: Article

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