Pragmatic nativisation of thanking in South Asian Englishes.
As South Asian Englishes have been studied regarding their structural levels but only few studies have focused on their pragmatics, this study investigates thanking strategies in the spoken parts of the British, Indian, and Sri Lankan components of the International Corpus of English. The paper answ...
| Published in: | World Englishes Vol. 41; no. 2; pp. 136 - 151 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jun2022
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