A Cross-Disciplinary and Linguistic Study of Context Frames in Research Article Abstracts

Subject Areas : Research in English Language Pedagogy

Seyed Foad Ebrahimi ¹ , Hossein Saadabadi Motlagh ²

1 - Department of English, Shadegan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shadegan, Iran
2 - Department of English, Bushehr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bushehr, Iran

Received: 2016-09-04 Accepted : 2017-02-02 Published : 2017-02-02

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