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Publication details [#11932]
Chodorowska, Marianna. 1997. On the Polite Function of ¿me entiendes? in Spanish. Journal of Pragmatics 28 (3) : 355–371. 17 pp. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
Annotation
It is argued that this Spanish phrase is an interpersonal discourse marker that is used for alleviating negative statements and politeness. Motivation of this usage and distribution of the phrase is given.