Formality in Digital Discourse: A Study of Hedging in CANELC

This chapter provides a corpus-based analysis of formality in e-language. It examines how levels of formality differ from one ‘mode’ of e-language to the next, and how these collectively compare to spoken and written discourse, providing the foundations f

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Jesús Romero-Trillo Editor

Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2013 New Domains and Methodologies

Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2013

YEARBOOK OF CORPUS LINGUISTICS AND PRAGMATICS 2013

Editor-in-Chief: Jesús Romero-Trillo Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

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Jesús Romero-Trillo Editor

Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2013 New Domains and Methodologies

Editor Jesús Romero-Trillo Departamento de Filología Inglesa Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Madrid, Spain

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