A cross-cultural analysis of English newspaper editorials: A systemic-functional view of text for contrastive rhetoric research

RELC Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 211-249

  Ansary, Hasan ^a   Babaii, Esmat ^b  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b KHARAZMI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Contrastive rhetoric; English newspaper editorials; Generic structure potential; GSP; Systemic functional theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 67249127398     PISSN: 00336882     EISSN: 1745526X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0033688209105867     Document Type: Review

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