ANNA WIERZBICKA. Cross-cultural pragmatics: The semantics of human interaction
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Semantics, cross-cultural style.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: <i>WORD</i>
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0043-7956,2373-5112
DOI: 10.1080/00437956.1994.12098353