Creole discourse effects on the speech conjunctive system in expository texts

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1827-1850

  Clachar, Arlene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Clause structure; Creole languages; Genres; Literacy; Registers; Text analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 4344641020     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2004.05.002     Document Type: Article

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