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ERIC Number: EJ136272
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1975
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Misinformation and Ambiguity in Verbal Interaction: A Northern Thai Example
Bilmes, Jack
Linguistics, 165, 63-75, Dec 1 75
Misinformation and ambiguity as features of social communication in Northern Thai villages are examined. The questions of how well Northern Thai villagers understand each others' verbal communications, and how accurate their statements actually are, are considered. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Dialect Studies, Mutual Intelligibility, Regional Dialects, Semantics, Sino Tibetan Languages, Sociocultural Patterns, Sociolinguistics, Thai, Verbal Communication
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