Cultural and disciplinary variation in academic discourse: The issue of influencing factors

Journal of English for Academic Purposes

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 153-167

  Yakhontova, Tatyana ^a  

^a IVAN FRANKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF LVIV   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Academic discourse; Conference abstracts; Contrastive rhetoric; English for Academic Purposes; Genre

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744925939     PISSN: 14751585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeap.2006.03.002     Document Type: Article

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