G'day or Guten Tag?: A cross-cultural study of Australian and German telephone openings

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1323-1343

  Grieve, Averil ^a   Seebus, Ingrid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian English; Cross cultural communication; German; Interactional sociolinguistics; Telephone conversation openings

Indexed keywords

EID: 43849108108     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2007.11.005     Document Type: Article

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