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Echoes of Expression
The Grammar of Goodbye
Villadarez, Chile A.
Recommended Citation:
Villadarez, C. A. (2026). The Grammar of Goodbye. In Echoes of Expression (Vol. 2, Issue 7, pp. 677–680). Lakbay-Diwa Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21553401
Author(s)
Villadarez, Chile A.
Description
On the first day of her course on Introduction to Pragmatics, Professor Lea Gonzales wrote a single sentence on the whiteboard. “Goodbye is never just a word.” Her students looked at one another, expecting a lecture about meaning, context, or speech acts.
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