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Henry, Alex and Debbie G. E. Ho. 2010. The act of complaining in Brunei—Then and now. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (3) : 840–855.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

This study argues that the complaint letters of Bruneian English speakers to the then only English medium newspaper in Brunei Darussalam, the Borneo Bulletin, have significantly changed over a 17-year period from 1988 to 2005, from wholesale straight and aggressive to direct yet diplomatic and civil.