Pragmatic Failure of Refusal Patterns of Chinese-Australian from a Cross-cultural Perspective

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Issue		SHS Web of Conf. Volume 174, 2023 2023 2^nd International Conference on Science Education and Art Appreciation (SEAA 2023)


Article Number		03027
Number of page(s)		6
Section		Landscape Management and Socio-Environmental Planning
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/202317403027
Published online		11 August 2023

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