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"Buenos dias", "buenas noches" -- this was the first words in a foreign language I heard in my life, as a three-year old boy growing up in developing post-war Western Germany, where the first gastarbeiters had arrived from Spain. Fascinated by the strange sounds, I tried to get to know some more languages, the only opportunity being TV courses of English and French -- there was no foreign language education for pre-teen school children in Germany yet in those days. Read more

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Name:	Richard  J. Watts
Selected Publications:
Announced on LINGUIST :	Alternative Histories of the English Language  Alternative Histories of the English Language  Politeness  Politeness in Language  Politeness in Language  Language Myths and the History of English
Reviewed on LINGUIST :	Politeness  Politeness in Language  Language Myths and the History of English
Dissertation Director * of:	The Interface of Power and Politeness in Disagreements: An analysis of three speech situations (Miriam Locher, Author)
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