Formal idioms and action: Toward a grammar of genres

Language and Communication

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 211-224

  Salmon, William N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Construction grammar; Formal idiom; Genre; New rhetoric

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956192219     PISSN: 02715309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2010.01.002     Document Type: Article

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