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In:Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation
Edited by Elena Seoane and Douglas Biber
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 103] 2021
► pp. 1–18

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Chapter 1
A corpus-based approach to register variation

 | University of Vigo
 | Northern Arizona University
Published online: 8 December 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.103.01seo
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Contributions to this volume
  • Corpora
  • References
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