Attitude markers in business management research articles: A cross-cultural corpus-driven approach

International Journal of Applied Linguistics

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 50-72

  Dueñas, Pilar Mur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Academic writing; Attitude markers; Intercultural rhetoric; Metadiscourse; Research articles

Indexed keywords

EID: 77349092047     PISSN: 08026106     EISSN: 14734192     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1473-4192.2009.00228.x     Document Type: Article

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