Grounding and its signalling: Evidence from short news texts

Discourse Studies

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 97-118

  Khalil, Esam N ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cross cultural communication; discourse analysis; grammar; news; pragmatics; semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993812265     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445601003001005     Document Type: Article

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