Modal expressions as facework in refusals to comply with requests: I think I should say ‘no’ right now
- 28 February 1997
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Journal of Pragmatics
- Vol. 27 (2), 145-181
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0378-2166(96)00034-3
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