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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. 235–257

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Chapter 12
Do writers express the same attitude in historical genres?

A contrastive analysis of attitude devices in the Corpus of History English Texts

 | Universitat Politècnica de València
Published online: 9 October 2019
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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Attitude devices
  • 3.The Enlightenment
  • 4.Procedure
    • 4.1Material
    • 4.2Method
  • 5.Results and discussion
  • 6.Conclusions
  • Note
  • References
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