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Discourse linguistics: Theory and practiceEdited by Karin Aijmer and Anita Fetzer
[Functions of Language 21:1] 2014
► pp. 119–126
Edited by Karin Aijmer and Anita Fetzer
[Functions of Language 21:1] 2014
► pp. 119–126
Book review
. The Mental Corpus. How Language is Represented in the Mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 336 pp. ISBN 978 0 19 929080 2
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