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Review published In: Contrastive Linguistics and other Approaches to Language Comparison
Edited by Matthias Hüning and Barbara Schlücker
[Languages in Contrast 12:1] 2012
► pp. 112–119

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Karin Aijmer (ed.). Contrastive Pragmatics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2011. 182 pp. ISBN 978 90 272 2260 2 . [Benjamins Current Topics, 30].

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Published online: 12 January 2012
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