Research article abstracts in applied linguistics and educational technology: A study of linguistic realizations of rhetorical structure and authorial stance

Discourse Studies

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 231-250

  Pho, Phuong Dzung ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abstracts; Authorial stance; Genre analysis; Linguistic features; Moves; Research articles

Indexed keywords

EID: 41149092356     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445607087010     Document Type: Article

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