Exploration in thematization strategies and their discoursal values in English

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Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 225-249

  Lotfipour Saedi, Kazem ^a   Rezai Tajani, Forouzan ^b  

^a University of Tabriz

^b NONE

Author keywords

(Non) theme position element; (Non) topical theme; Central topic; Macro and microthemes; Physical and semantic distance; Topic related node

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144496522     PISSN: 01654888     EISSN: 18607349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/text.1.1996.16.2.225     Document Type: Article

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