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Publication details [#27094]

Nelson, Gayle L., Mahmoud Al-Batal, Joan Carson and Waguida El Bakary. 2002. Cross-cultural pragmatics: Strategy use in Egyptian Arabic and American English refusals. Applied Linguistics 23 (2) : 163–189.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN
0142-6001

Annotation

This study discusses the results of a discourse completion test (DCT)-based analysis which shows a similar strategy use in American English and Egyptian Arabic refusals, but appears inappropriate for collecting sociopragmatic data.