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Review published In: Functions of Language
Vol. 1:1 (1994) ► pp.145–150

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Jan Firbas. Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken Communication. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. [Studies in English Language series]. xv + 239 pp. ISBN 0-521-37308-5

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Published online: 1 January 1994
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