Prominent messages in Education and Applied Linguistic abstracts: How do authors appeal to their prospective readers?

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 753-769

  Golebiowski, Zofia ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abstract; Applied Linguistics; Coherence relations; Education; Interdisciplinary variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 60449110487     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2008.10.009     Document Type: Article

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