Evaluating lexical cohesion in telephone conversations

Discourse Studies

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 599-623

  Gómez González, María de los Ángeles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

associative cohesion; coherence; collocation; informal interactions; lexical chains; lexical cohesion; lexical ties; repetition; telephone conversations

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957288915     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445610371052     Document Type: Article

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