Text categories and where you can stick them: A crude formality index

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 199-237

  Sigley, Robert ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Factor analysis; Formality; Text typology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989402465     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.2.2.04sig     Document Type: Article

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