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Etzkorn, Letha H. 2001. The language of comments in computer software: A sublanguage of English. Journal of Pragmatics 33 (11) : 1731–1756.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language variety | register

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This study shows that computer software comments (e.g. 'Appends a new object') constitute a sublanguage of English, according to Lehrberger's sublanguage criteria.