A genre approach to impoliteness in a Spanish television talk show: Evidence from corpus-based analysis, questionnaires and focus groups

Intercultural Pragmatics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 689-723

  Garcés Conejos Blitvich, Pilar ^a   Lorenzo Dus, Nuria ^b   Bou Franch, Patricia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

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EID: 78149489803     PISSN: 1612295X     EISSN: 1613365X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/IPRG.2010.030     Document Type: Review

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