"Invisible to us": A preliminary corpus-based study of spoken business English

McCarthy, Michael; Handford, Michael

doi:10.1075/scl.16.08mcc

In:Discourse in the Professions: Perspectives from corpus linguistics
Edited by Ulla Connor and Thomas A. Upton
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 16] 2004
► pp. 167–201

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"Invisible to us": A preliminary corpus-based study of spoken business English

Michael McCarthy

Michael Handford

Published online: 30 November 2004

https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.16.08mcc

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