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HAL Id: hal-00275963 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00275963v2 Submitted on 27 Jun 2008 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- entific research documents, whether they are pub- lished or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. The rhetoric of conference presentation introductions : context, argument and interaction Elizabeth Rowley-Jolivet, Shirley Carter-Thomas To cite this version: Elizabeth Rowley-Jolivet, Shirley Carter-Thomas. The rhetoric of conference presentation introduc- tions: context, argument and interaction. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Wiley, 2005, 15 (1), pp.45-70. 10.1111/j.1473-4192.2005.00080.x. hal-00275963v2

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HAL Id: hal-00275963https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00275963v2

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The rhetoric of conference presentation introductions :context, argument and interaction

Elizabeth Rowley-Jolivet, Shirley Carter-Thomas

To cite this version:Elizabeth Rowley-Jolivet, Shirley Carter-Thomas. The rhetoric of conference presentation introduc-tions : context, argument and interaction. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Wiley, 2005,15 (1), pp.45-70. �10.1111/j.1473-4192.2005.00080.x�. �hal-00275963v2�

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