Variation in the use of discourse markers by Chinese teaching assistants in the US

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1313-1328

  Liao, Silvie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse markers; Gender; International teaching assistants; SLA; Variation studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349278004     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2008.09.026     Document Type: Article

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