Genre dynamics exhibited in the development of sales tongzhi 'circulars'

Text

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 281-306

  Yunxia, Zhu ^a  

^a UNITEC INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Communicative purposes; Genre evolution; Sales tongzhi; World schemata; Xiaxing language

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248767523     PISSN: 01654888     EISSN: 18607349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/text.1.1999.19.2.281     Document Type: Review

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