'This mystery. . .': A corpus-based study of the use of nouns to construct stance in theses from two contrasting disciplines

Journal of English for Academic Purposes

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 313-326

  Charles, Maggie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corpus studies; Disciplinary discourse; Evaluation; Nouns; Stance; Thesis writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 7244229857     PISSN: 14751585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1475-1585(03)00048-1     Document Type: Article

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