Punctuation as Social Action: The Ellipsis as a Discourse Marker in Computer-Mediated Communication
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عنوان ژورنال: Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society
سال: 2006
ISSN: 2377-1666,0363-2946
DOI: 10.3765/bls.v32i1.3469