MSc common room casual conversations : a lexico-grammatical longitudinal study of a discourse community in formation

This thesis provides a developmental description of the language used by an academic discourse community. Casual conversations of six post-graduate students, native speakers of English, were recorded in the Applied Linguistics common room in Edinburgh University throughout the 1991-92 course. The ce...

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Main Author: Cutting, Joan
Published: University of Edinburgh 1996
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.649053