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Other authors / contributors: | Hoey, Michael.
Scott, Mike, 1946-
Thompson, Geoff, 1947-
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ISBN: | 9789027298492 9027298491 9781556197925 1556197926 1282162756 9781282162754 9786612162756 6612162759 1556197926 9027225729
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Digital file characteristics: | data file
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. English. Print version record.
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Summary: | It is increasingly clear that, in order to understand language as a phenomenon, we must understand the phenomenon of text. Our primary experience of language comes in the form of texts, which embody the complete communicative events through which our language-using lives are lived. These events are shaped by communicative needs, and this shaping is reflected in certain characteristic patterns in the texts. However, the nature of texts and text is still elusive: we know which forms are typically found in text but we do not yet have a full grasp of how they constitute its textuality, how they ma.
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Other form: | Print version: Patterns of text. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2001
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