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Nils Erik Enkvist

| University of Helsinki,
| Åbo Akademi University,
Article outline
  • 1.Life and overview
  • 2.Stylistics
    • 2.1Literary pragmatics
  • 3.Text linguistics
    • 3.1Promoting text linguistics
    • 3.2Cohesion and coherence
    • 3.3Interpretability and textual worlds
  • 4.Studies on interaction
    • 4.1Impromptu speech
    • 4.2The CIF principle
  • 5.Old English
  • 6.Iconicity
  • 7.Applied linguistics
  • 8.Academic administration, honors, and legacy
  • Author queries
  • Note
  • References
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