Marked Themes and thematic patterns in abstracts, advertisements and administrative documents

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Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 343-362

  Kong, Kenneth C C ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

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