Explaining cross-cultural pragmatic findings: moving from politeness maxims to sociopragmatic interactional principles (SIPs)
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Pragmatics
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0378-2166
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-2166(03)00025-0