Language and Economy

Contemporary Applied Linguistics: Volume 2 Linguistics for the Real World

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 28-45

  Coulmas, Florian ^a,b  

^a German Inst for Japanese Studies   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

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