Negative evaluation in linguistic book reviews by male and female authors: “This seems somewhat counterintuitive, though…”

Römer, Ute

doi:10.1075/scl.19.08rom

In:Strategies in Academic Discourse
Edited by Elena Tognini-Bonelli and Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 19] 2005
► pp. 97–115

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“This seems somewhat counterintuitive, though…”

Negative evaluation in linguistic book reviews by male and female authors

Ute Römer

Published online: 21 December 2005

https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.19.08rom

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