Generic patterns and socio-cultural resources in acknowledgements accompanying Arabic Ph.D. dissertations

Pragmatics

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-26

  Al Ali, Mohammed Nahar ^a  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Acknowledgements; Arabic dissertations; Genre; Socio cultural motivations

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952880590     PISSN: 10182101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/prag.20.1.01ali     Document Type: Article

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