Cultural discourse in the Corpus of East African english and beyond: Possibilities and problems of lexical and collocational research in a one million-word corpus

World Englishes

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 251-260

  Schmied, Josef ^a  

^a CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

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EID: 68949101348     PISSN: 08832919     EISSN: 1467971X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0883-2919.2004.00349.x     Document Type: Article

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