The rhetorical management of academic criticism in research article abstracts

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Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 171-195

  Martín Martín, Pedro ^a   Burgess, Sally ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Academic criticism; Conflict; Critical speech acts; Research article abstracts; Rhetorical strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 30344487529     PISSN: 01654888     EISSN: 18607349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/text.2004.007     Document Type: Article

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