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Norbert Schmitt's essential bookshelf: Formulaic language

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2022

Norbert Schmitt*
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

Extract

In this series, Language Teaching invites a well-established scholar to make a personal choice of 12 works that he or she regards as essential reading for those interested in an historical and contemporary overview of the key work in the area chosen for study.

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