Inferring character from texts: Attribution theory and foregrounding theory

Poetics

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 335-361

  Culpeper, Jonathan ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 23844558580     PISSN: 0304422X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-422X(95)00005-5     Document Type: Article

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