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Nessa Wolfson

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1976

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University of Pennsylvania(Current)

California University of Pennsylvania

Nessa Wolfson is an author at University of Pennsylvania specializing in language studies, linguistics, and sociolinguistics.

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LanguageLinguisticsSociolinguisticsConversation AnalysisCommunicationDiscourse AnalysisSpeech CommunicationRhetoricLanguage LearningApplied Linguistics

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1976–2017

14

Publications

14

Sociolinguistics and Language Acquisition

Trisha Dvorak, Nessa Wolfson, Elliot L. Judd et al. · Modern Language Journal · 1984 · 585 citations

Second Language Learning, Second Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics +6

Speech events and natural speech: some implications for sociolinguistic methodology

Nessa Wolfson · Language in Society · 1976 · 282 citations

Speech Events, Pragmatic Analysis, Rhetoric +20

Compliments in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Nessa Wolfson · TESOL Quarterly · 1981 · 277 citations

Second Language Learning, Multilingualism, Second Language Speaking +29

The Conversational Historical Present Alternation

Nessa Wolfson · Language · 1979 · 266 citations

Applied Linguistics, Syntax, Chp Alternation +15

The compliment as a social strategy

Nessa Wolfson, Joan Manes · Paper in Linguistics · 1980 · 239 citations

Pragmatic Analysis, Social Psychology, American English +22

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