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Review published In: Functions of Language
Vol. 21:2 (2014) ► pp.248–258

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Michaela Mahlberg. Corpus Stylistics and Dickens’s Fiction. New York, NY: Routledge, 2013. xiv + 221 pp. ISBN 978 0 415 80014 3

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Published online: 22 August 2014
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