Thanking and responding to thanks in American English: Language patterning and contextual appropriateness

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Thanking and responding to thanks in American English: Language patterning and contextual appropriateness. / Barron, Anne.

Teaching English with corpora: A resource book. ed. / Vander Viana. 1. ed. London : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2023. p. 193-197 38.

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Harvard

Barron, A 2023, Thanking and responding to thanks in American English: Language patterning and contextual appropriateness. in V Viana (ed.), Teaching English with corpora: A resource book. 1 edn, 38, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, London, pp. 193-197.

APA

Barron, A. (2023). Thanking and responding to thanks in American English: Language patterning and contextual appropriateness. In V. Viana (Ed.), Teaching English with corpora: A resource book (1 ed., pp. 193-197). [38] Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.

Vancouver

Barron A. Thanking and responding to thanks in American English: Language patterning and contextual appropriateness. In Viana V, editor, Teaching English with corpora: A resource book. 1 ed. London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 2023. p. 193-197. 38

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