Geologists' implicit persuasive strategies and the construction of evaluative evidence

Journal of English for Academic Purposes

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 273-290

  Dressen, Dacia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Dialogism; Evaluative evidence; Implicit; Part genre; Qualitative analysis; Situated genre analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 23644440416     PISSN: 14751585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1475-1585(03)00046-8     Document Type: Article

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