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Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-05-15 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-08-07 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
This is the first comprehensive presentation of Functional Discourse Grammar. The authors set out its nature and origins and show how it relates to contemporary
Language: en
Pages: 203
Pages: 203
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-04-26 - Publisher: Routledge
This book builds on current sociolinguistic and discourse-analytic studies of language in school, but adds a new dimension--the framework of functional linguist
Language: en
Pages: 469
Pages: 469
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