Specificity revisited: How far should we go now?

English for Specific Purposes

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 385-395

  Hyland, Ken ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Common core; Community literacies; Disciplinary genres; Language varieties; Specificity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141737619     PISSN: 08894906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0889-4906(01)00028-X     Document Type: Note

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