Two Approaches to Genre Analysis: Three Genres in Modern American English

Journal of English Linguistics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 62-82

  Xiao, Zhonghua ^a   Mcenery, Anthony ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

academic prose; conversation; genre; keyword analysis; multidimensional analysis; speech

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248715720     PISSN: 00754242     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0075424204273957     Document Type: Article

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