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This study investigated some linguistic variations among three Bemba dialects, namely: Standard Bemba, Luunda and Ŋumbo. Standard Bemba is classified by Guthrie (1948) as M42. It should be made clear that the dialect known as Luunda is different from Lunda, one of the languages spoken in...

The current study examined some address forms in Tonga from a sociopragmatic perspective within the framework of sociolinguistics and pragmatics. In particular, the study applied speech act theory, politeness theories and the theory of conversational implicature. This research was done in order...