Formulaic Language in Biology: A Topic-specific Investigation

Academic Writing: at the Interface of Corpus and Discourse

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 91-104

  Pecorari, Diane ^a  

^a MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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