The Use of Personal Pronouns: Role Relationships in Scientific Journal Articles

English for Specific Purposes

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 121-138

  Kuo, Chih Hua ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Discourse analysis; Grammatical relations; Scientific technical language

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000917803     PISSN: 08894906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0889-4906(97)00058-6     Document Type: Article

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