Impoliteness in Germany: Intercultural encounters in everyday and institutional talk

Intercultural Pragmatics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 561-595

  House, Juliane ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b German Science Foundation's Research Centre on Multilingualism   (Germany)

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EID: 78149479028     PISSN: 1612295X     EISSN: 1613365X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/IPRG.2010.026     Document Type: Review

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