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English in an interconnected way and notes the ties that bind varieties and regions that are geographically far apart, as with: West African English and African American English; Scots, Ulster Scots, the Scotch-Irish migrations to Appalachia in the US, and country and western music; and aspects...
Notes on disaligning ‘yes but’ initiated utterances in German and Danish conversations. Two construction types for dispreferred responses A. Hakulinen, M. Selting (Eds.), Syntax and lexis in conversation: Studies on the use of linguistic resources in talk-in-interaction, John Benjamins Publishing...
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Download preview PDF.Notes Roy’s remarks are in James W. Massie, Continental India: Travelling Sketches and Historical Recollections (London: Thomas Ward, 1840), II: 439; Google Scholar Gandhi’s speech is quoted in Raymond Leslie Buell, The Native Problem in Africa (New York: Macmillan, ...
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