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    Language in Your Life, the Media, Business, Politics, and, Like, Whatever

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    Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean

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  • Narrative in English Conversation

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    Series series Studies in English Language
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  • Keeping Languages Alive

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  • The Art of Positive Communication

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  • What is Discourse Analysis?

    Series series The 'What is?' Research Methods Series
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.What is Discourse Analysis? is an accessible introduction to an empirical research approach which is widely used in the social sciences and related disciplines.This book explores the idea of how meaning is socially constructed and how 'talk' and text can be ... Leer más

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    Series series Studies in Language and Gender
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