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Publication details [#51013]
Misković-Luković, Mirjana. 2009. Is there a chance that I might kinda sort of take you out to dinner?: The role of the pragmatic particles kind of and sort of in utterance interpretation. Journal of Pragmatics 41 (3) : 602–625. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
Annotation
According to this descriptive exploration, the English pragmatic particles kind of and sort of are semantic–pragmatic synonyms, yet the former seems to have reached further discoursization.