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Edited by Monika Bednarek, Valentin Werner and Marcia Veirano Pinto
[International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 26:1] 2021
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Introduction

Corpus approaches to telecinematic language

 | The University of Sydney
 | São Paulo Federal University
 | University of Bamberg


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Published online: 30 October 2020
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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Corpora of English-language telecinematic discourse
  • 3.Corpus linguistic research on telecinematic discourse
  • 4.Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
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