Refusal strategies: A proposal from a sociopragmatic approach

Revista Espanola de Linguistica Aplicada

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages 139-150

  Campillo, Patricia Salazar ^a   Pilar Safont jorda M ^a   Codina Espurz, Victòria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

Interlanguage pragmatics; Refusals; Speech acts

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955161500     PISSN: 02132028     EISSN: 18859089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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