Contentiousness in science: The discourse of critique in two sociology journals

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Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 723-744

  Lewin, Beverly A ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Academic conflict; Hedging; Politeness theory.; scientific discourse

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247658011     PISSN: 01654888     EISSN: 18607349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/text.2005.25.6.723     Document Type: Article

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