Semantic and interactional indirectness in Tongan lexical honorification

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 317-336

  Philips, Susan U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conventions of entextualization; Honorific speech registers; Indirectness; Interaction; Semantics; Tongan

Indexed keywords

EID: 70450267589     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2009.06.005     Document Type: Article

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