Co-evolving academic rhetoric across culture; Britain, Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany in the 20th century

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 290-305

  Shaw, Philip ^a   Vassileva, Irena ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SOUTH WEST UNIVERSITY NEOFIT RILSKI   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Academic discourse rhetoric; Bulgarian; Danish; Economics language; English; German

Indexed keywords

EID: 58249095031     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2008.07.009     Document Type: Article

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