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Publication details [#46505]

Bell, David. 2007. Sentence-initial and and but in academic writing. Pragmatics 17 (2) : 183–201.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

academic language | connective | initialization | writing

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

Using academic prose data, this article examines occurence patterns and functions of the sentence-initial And and But connectives in academic writing.