The pragmatics of advice giving: Cross-cultural perspectives

Intercultural Pragmatics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 319-342

  Decapua, Andrea ^a   Dunham, Joan Findlay ^a  

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EID: 51249145770     PISSN: 1612295X     EISSN: 1613365X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/IP.2007.016     Document Type: Article

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