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In:Writing History in Late Modern English: Explorations of the Coruña Corpus
Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Begoña Crespo, Luis Puente-Castelo and Leida Maria Monaco
[Not in series 225] 2019
► pp. 83–101

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Chapter 5
Exploring the narrative dimension in late Modern English History texts

 | Universidade da Coruña
Published online: 9 October 2019
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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The multidimensional analysis and the “narrative” dimension
  • 3.Corpus and methodology
  • 4.Analysis of data
    • 4.1Variation across time and disciplines
    • 4.2Variation across genres within eighteenth-century CHET
  • 5.Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
  • Appendix
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