Discursive practice and the Nigerian identity in personal emails

Handbook of Research on Discourse Behavior and Digital Communication: Language Structures and Social Interaction

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 112-129

  Chiluwa, Innocent ^a  

^a Centre for Economic Policy and Development Research   (Nigeria)

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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-773-2.ch007     Document Type: Chapter

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