Points of departure in news items and tourist brochures: Choices of theme and topic

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Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 347-371

  Moya Guijarro, Arsenio Jesús ^a   Albentosa Hernández, José Ignacio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aboutness.; Discourse topic; Genre; Register; Sentence topic; Theme

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846460640     PISSN: 01654888     EISSN: 18607349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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