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Download full textValentine, Tamara M. – 1994
This study examined the speech act of agreement and disagreement in the ordinary conversation of English-speakers in India. Data were collected in natural speech elicited from educated, bilingual speakers in cross-sex and same-sex conversations in a range of formal and informal settings. Subjects' ages ranged from 19 to about 60. Five agreement…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Discourse Analysis, English, Foreign Countries
