Your argument is wrong: A contribution to the study of evaluation in academic weblogs

Text and Talk

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 145-165

  Luzón, María José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

academic discourse; evaluation; i dentity; online genres; weblogs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860527320     PISSN: 18607330     EISSN: 18607349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/text-2012-0008     Document Type: Article

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