Hooking the reader: A corpus study of evaluative that in abstracts

English for Specific Purposes

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 123-139

  Hyland, Ken ^a   Tse, Polly ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 11044235847     PISSN: 08894906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2004.02.002     Document Type: Article

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