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In the Garden and in the Jungle

  • Sharoff S
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9178-9_7
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Abstract

The jungle metaphor is quite common in genre studies. The subtitle of David Lee's seminal paper on genre classification is “navigating a path through the BNC jungle” [16]. According to Adam Kilgarriff, the BNC is a jungle only when compared to smaller Brown-type corpora, while it ...

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Sharoff, S. (2010). In the Garden and in the Jungle (pp. 149–166). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9178-9_7

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