Speech act research between armchair, field and laboratory. The case of compliments

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1611-1635

  Jucker, Andreas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Compliments; Politeness; Research methods; Speech acts

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349142987     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2009.02.004     Document Type: Article

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