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Publication details [#39359]

Steffensen, Margaret S. 1986. Register, Cohesion, and Cross-cultural Reading Comprehension. Applied Linguistics 7 (1) : 71–85.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cohesion | reading comprehension | register

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This study confirms that cultural knowledge, assumption, and beliefs affect the ways in which people use the linguistic reflexes that indicate the situation of the speech event and that create textual cohesions predictions.