The strategic plan as a genre

Discourse and Communication

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 21-54

  Cornut, Francis ^a   Giroux, Hélène ^a   Langley, Ann ^a  

^a HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computer assisted text analysis; corpus linguistics; genre analysis; strategic plans

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857820883     PISSN: 17504813     EISSN: 17504821     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1750481311432521     Document Type: Article

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