Exploring epistemic modality in academic discourse using corpora

Educational Linguistics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages 53-71

  Rizomilioti, Vassiliki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Academic Discourse; Epistemic Modality; Lexical Item; Literary Criticism; Myosin Head

Indexed keywords

EID: 85091153291     PISSN: 15720292     EISSN: 22151656     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-28624-2_4     Document Type: Chapter

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