The incidence and effects on coherence of marked themes in interlanguage texts: A corpus-based enquiry

English for Specific Purposes

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 99-113

  Green, Christopher F ^a   Christopher, Elsie R ^a   Lam, Jaquelin ^a   Mei, Kam ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 0141625815     PISSN: 08894906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0889-4906(98)00014-3     Document Type: Article

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