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Ikranagara, Kay. 1975. Lexical particles in Betawi. Linguistics 165 : 93–108.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject

Annotation

I. shows that the meaning of a number of particles in Betawi may be described in terms of the feelings of the speaker and violations of conversational postulates. They are also shown to have implications for politeness.