Collegiality, critique and the construction of scientific argumentation in medical book reviews: A diachronic approach

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1758-1774

  Salager Meyer, Françoise ^a   Alcaraz Ariza, María Ángeles ^b   Pabón Berbesí, Maryelis ^c  

^a Hospital Universitario de Los Andes   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Academic criticism; Book reviews; Diachronic; French; Medicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548451978     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2006.06.003     Document Type: Article

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