Interaction in academic lectures vs. written text materials: The case of questions

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1216-1231

  Crawford Camiciottoli, Belinda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Corpus methodology; Interaction; Lectures; Online texts; Questions; Textbooks

Indexed keywords

EID: 43849089570     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2007.08.007     Document Type: Article

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