Tracing convergence and divergence in pairs of Spanish and English research article abstracts: The case of Ibérica

Iberica

Volumn 21, Issue , 2011, Pages 49-70

  Perales Escudero, Moisés ^a   Swales, John M ^b  

^a BENEMÉRITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE PUEBLA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstracts; Academic discourse; Contrastive rhetoric; Metadiscourse; Translation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955739430     PISSN: 11397241     EISSN: 11397241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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