Lexical cohesion: Corpus linguistic theory and its application in English language teaching

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 363-383

  Mahlberg, Michaela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collocation; Communicative approaches; Lexical cohesion; Lexical item; Semantic prosody

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248712186     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.11.3.08mah     Document Type: Conference Paper

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