Chapter published in:
Intercultural Perspectives on Research Writing
Edited by Pilar Mur-Dueñas and Jolanta Šinkūnienė
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series 18] 2018
► pp. 1–12

Introduction

Intercultural rhetoric approaches to the analysis of academic genres

Article outline
  • Intercultural rhetoric and EAP
  • Intercultural rhetoric and ELF
  • Book overview
  • References
Published online: 06 December 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/aals.18.int
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