The Spanish notion of Lie: Revisiting Coleman and Kay

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3199-3213

  Hardin, Karol J ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eastern Ecuador; Lying; Prototype semantics; Spanish dialect; Spanish pragmatics; Speech acts in Spanish

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957117188     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2010.07.006     Document Type: Article

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