Mary Besemeres

List of John Benjamins publications for which Mary Besemeres plays a role.

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Besemeres, Mary and Anna Wierzbicka 2003 The meaning of the particle lah in Singapore English Pragmatics & Cognition 11:1, pp. 3–38 | Article
In this paper we try to crack one of the hardest and most intriguing chestnuts in the field of cross-cultural pragmatics and to identify the meaning of the celebrated Singaporean particle lah — the hallmark of Singapore English. In pursuing this goal, we investigate the use of lah and seek to… read more