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Publication details [#56229]

Mulo Farenkia, Bernard. 2012. Compliment strategies and regional variation in French: Evidence from Cameroon and Canadian French. Pragmatics 22 (3) : 444–476.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

complimenting | discourse strategy | interjection | language variety | modifier

Language as a subject

French, Cameroon | French, Canadian

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This paper explores (dis)similarities in compliment (on skill) strategies in Yaoundé Cameroonian and Montréal Canadian French by analyzing discourse completion tasks.