A corpus-based view of lexical gender in written Business English

English for Specific Purposes

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 219-234

  Fuertes Olivera, Pedro A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

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EID: 33847622575     PISSN: 08894906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2006.07.001     Document Type: Article

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