Retrospective labelling in premise-conclusion metatext: An English-Spanish contrastive study of research articles on business and economics

Journal of English for Academic Purposes

Volumn 3, Issue 4 SPEC.ISS., 2004, Pages 321-339

  Moreno, Ana I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Academic discourse; EAP; Metatext; Premise conclusion coherence relations; Retrospective labelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 7244240778     PISSN: 14751585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeap.2004.07.005     Document Type: Article

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