The functional and social reality of discourse variants in a northern English dialect: I don't know and i don't think compared

Intercultural Pragmatics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 561-596

  Pichler, Heike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 77149157564     PISSN: 1612295X     EISSN: 1613365X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/IPRG.2009.028     Document Type: Article

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