Mitigation and politeness in Greek invitation refusals: Effects of length of residence in the target community and intensity of interaction on non-native speakers' performance

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1718-1740

  Bella, Spyridoula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Greek; Intensity of interaction; Invitation refusals; Length of residence; Non native speakers; Politeness

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952006856     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2010.11.005     Document Type: Article

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