Cross-linguistic differences in talking about scenes
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Cross-linguistic Differences in Talking About Scenes.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Pragmatics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0378-2166
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2010.04.021