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Peer reviewedAtkinson, Dwight – Applied Linguistics, 1992
Research articles from the oldest continuing medical journal in English were studied in terms of rhetorical analysis of broad genre characteristics and linguistic analysis of registral features using Biber's system of text analysis. Results suggest evolution influenced can be accounted for by changing epistemological norms of medical knowledge,…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Epistemology, Foreign Countries, Medical Research
