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Publication details [#5057]

Ikranagara, Kay. 1975. Lexical particles in Betawi. Linguistics 165 : 93–108.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational postulate | emotion | particle | politeness

Language as a subject

Betawi

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LING/html

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.