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- Title
Explicitness and ellipsis as features of conversational style in British English and Ecuadorian...
- Authors
Placencia, Maria E.
- Abstract
Examines differences in conversational style between British English and Ecuadorian Spanish as a source of communication conflict among speakers. Existence of marked differences between the languages in telephone conversations; Study of conversational and communicative style; Elliptical and explicit forms in relation to speaker's motivations behind their choices.
- Subjects
COLLOQUIAL language; ENGLISH language conversation &; phrase books; SPANISH language; COMMUNICATION
- Publication
IRAL: International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1995, Vol 33, Issue 2, p129
- ISSN
0019-042X
- Publication type
Article