A corpus-based study of idioms in academic speech

TESOL Quarterly

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 419-441

  Simpson, Rita ^a   Mendis, Dushyanthi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 4444316596     PISSN: 00398322     EISSN: 15457249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3588398     Document Type: Article

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