Language in the news: investigating representations of 'Englishness' using WordSmith Tools

Corpora

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 153-185

  Ensslin, Astrid ^a   Johnson, Sally ^b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85050715424     PISSN: 17495032     EISSN: 17551676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/cor.2006.1.2.153     Document Type: Article

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