The use of paragraphs in French and English academic writing: Towards a grammar of paragraphs

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Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 307-343

  Le, Elisabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Academic writing; Contrastive rhetoric; Macrostructural basis; Paragraph; Text linguistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038073957     PISSN: 01654888     EISSN: 18607349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/text.1.1999.19.3.307     Document Type: Article

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