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Publication details [#52957]

Al-Ali, Mohammed N. 2010. Generic patterns and socio-cultural resources in acknowledgements accompanying Arabic Ph.D. dissertations. Pragmatics 20 (1) : 1–26.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

acknowledging | address | contextualization cue | doctoral dissertation defense | language and culture

Language as a subject

Arabic

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This study explores generic patterns and socio-cultural factors affecting gratitude expressions in acknowledegments convoying native Arabic Ph.D. dissertations in soft sciences.