An intercultural study of first-person plural references in biomedical writing;Análisis intercultural de las referencias de primera persona del plural en textos biomédicos

Iberica

Volumn 18, Issue , 2009, Pages 71-92

  Carciu, Oana Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biomedical writing; Contrastive rhetoric; English as a lingua franca; Personal pronouns; Research articles

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950741313     PISSN: 11397241     EISSN: 11397241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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