Accessibility vs. physical proximity: An analysis of exophoric demonstrative practice in Spoken Jordanian Arabic

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3078-3097

  Jarbou, Samir Omar ^a  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Deixis; Demonstratives; Jordanian Arabic; Perceptibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955984318     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2010.04.014     Document Type: Article

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