Making history in From Colony to Nation: A multimodal analysis of a museum exhibition in Singapore

Multimodal Discourse Analysis: Systemic-Functional Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 28-54

  Meng, Alfred Pang Kah ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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