Textual metadiscourse in research articles: A marker of national culture or of academic discipline?

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1807-1825

  Dahl, Trine ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Academic discourse; Contrastive study; English; French; Metadiscourse; Norwegian; Research articles; Writer manifestation

Indexed keywords

EID: 4344575404     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2004.05.004     Document Type: Article

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