Complementary perspectives on hedging behaviour in family discourse: The analytical synergy of variational pragmatics and corpus linguistics

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 371-390

  Clancy, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Family discourse; Hedges; Politeness; Variational pragmatics

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054865251     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.16.3.05cla     Document Type: Review

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