Relevance theory and citations

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 43, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 3345-3361

  White, Howard D ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

Authors; Bibliometrics; Cognitive effects; Least effort behavior; Maximal and optimal relevance; Term frequencies

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054678450     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2011.07.005     Document Type: Article

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