Utterance-final conjunctive particles and implicature in Japanese conversation

Pragmatics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 425-451

  Haugh, Michael ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

(Im)politeness; Conjunction; Implicature; Interactional achievement; Japanese; Pragmatic analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 54949130967     PISSN: 10182101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/prag.18.3.04hau     Document Type: Article

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