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Publication details [#45387]

Premawardhena, Neelakshi Chandrasena. 2007. How diplomatic can a language be? The unwritten rules in a language: An analysis of spoken Sinhala. In Weigand, Edda and Marion Grein, eds. Dialogue and Culture. (Dialogue Studies 1). John Benjamins. pp. 213–225.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
diplomacy | discourse analysis | rule | spoken language
Language as a subject
Sinhala
Place, Publisher
John Benjamins

Annotation

This paper deals with unwritten 'diplomatic' rules in spoken Sinhala.