Dialogical surface text features in abstracts

A sample driven description of Research Article-Comment-Reply (RA-C-R) abstracts in terms of abstract sentence length, reference, possessive structures, modal verbs and word range was carried out to find out whether their surface text features showed some trace of a dialogical construction of knowle...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ingrid García-Østbye
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos 2008-04-01
Series:Ibérica
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Online Access:http://www.aelfe.org/documents/06_15_GarciaOstbye.pdf