Arguing linguistics: Corpus investigation of one functional variety of academic discourse

Journal of English for Academic Purposes

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 5-26

  Freddi, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Argumentation; Corpus investigation; Linguistics textbooks; Register variation; Statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 10244220987     PISSN: 14751585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeap.2003.09.002     Document Type: Article

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