Property transaction report: News, advertisement or a new genre?

Discourse Studies

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 771-796

  Kong, Kenneth C C ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Advertisements; Hybrid text; Intertextuality; Mediated discourse; News reports

Indexed keywords

EID: 36849073221     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445606069329     Document Type: Article

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