A Study of the use of address terms among Javanese servants toward their Tionghoa masters in Surabaya

Dyah, Tri Retnaning (1999) A Study of the use of address terms among Javanese servants toward their Tionghoa masters in Surabaya. Bachelor thesis, Petra Christian University.

Abstract

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