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Contrastive Analysis of Discourse-pragmatic Aspects of Linguistic Genres

Part of the book series: Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics ((YCLP,volume 5))

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The aim of this issue of the Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics is to explore the comparability of discourse-pragmatic characteristics of genres across European languages, using parallel corpora (aligned translated texts) and/or comparable corpora (genre-matched original texts). The articles have their origin in a seminar at the 12th ESSE conference in Kosiče, Slovakia 29 August–2 September 2014 convened by the editors.

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  1. University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Karin Aijmer

  2. Department of English and Lerma Research Centre, Aix Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France

    Diana Lewis

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  2. Department of English and Lerma Research Centre, Aix Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France

    Diana Lewis

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Aijmer, K., Lewis, D. (2017). Introduction. In: Aijmer, K., Lewis, D. (eds) Contrastive Analysis of Discourse-pragmatic Aspects of Linguistic Genres. Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54556-1_1

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