The emotional weight of I love you in multilinguals' languages

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1753-1780

  Dewaele, Jean Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communication of emotion; Emic perspective; Emotional weight; Linguistic pragmatics; Love; Multilingualism

Indexed keywords

EID: 46449137808     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2008.03.002     Document Type: Article

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