Probabilities and surprises: A realist approach to identifying linguistic and social patterns, with reference to an oral history corpus

Applied Linguistics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 215-235

  Sealey, Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 77951224205     PISSN: 01426001     EISSN: 1477450X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/applin/amp023     Document Type: Article

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