Computer-Assisted Text and Corpus Analysis: Lexical Cohesion and Communicative Competence

The Handbook of Discourse Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 304-320

  Stubbs, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Communicative competence; Corpus analysis; Database; Intertextual relations; Lexical cohesion

Indexed keywords

EID: 65849376836     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470753460.ch17     Document Type: Chapter

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