An intercultural analysis of metadiscourse features in research articles written in English and in Spanish

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3068-3079

  Mur Dueñas, Pilar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Academic discourse; English for Academic Purposes; Genre writing; Intercultural rhetoric; Interpersonality; Metadiscourse

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961029325     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2011.05.002     Document Type: Article

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