Illocutionary Speech Acts on Tweets Posted by Public Figures: Pragmatics Study
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عنوان ژورنال: English Journal Literacy Utama
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2655-4585,2654-5284
DOI: 10.33197/ejlutama.vol3.iss2.2019.274