Contrasting genre systems: Court documents from the United States and Sweden

Multilingua

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 275-304

  Fredrickson, Kirstin M ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33646388859     PISSN: 01678507     EISSN: 16133684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/mult.1996.15.3.275     Document Type: Article

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