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Susan Hunston
Corpus Approaches to Evaluation [EPUB ebook]
Phraseology and Evaluative Language

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Phraseology, as explored in corpus linguistics, is important to the study of evaluative language. Corpus techniques reveal this phraseology and so assist in, for example, identifying modal meaning and intensifying phrases. The patterns identified by corpus techniques can be used in identifying and parsing instances of evaluation.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9780203841686 ● Publisher Taylor & Francis ● Published 2010 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2296005 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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