Legal discourse: Opportunities and threats for corpus linguistics

Bhatia, Vijay

doi:10.1075/scl.16.09bha

In:Discourse in the Professions: Perspectives from corpus linguistics
Edited by Ulla Connor and Thomas A. Upton
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 16] 2004
► pp. 203–231

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Legal discourse: Opportunities and threats for corpus linguistics

Vijay Bhatia

Published online: 30 November 2004

https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.16.09bha

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