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Child welfare in Victorian newspapers: corpus-based discourse analysis

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Child welfare in Victorian newspapers: corpus-based discourse analysis. / Atkinson, Paul; Gregory, Ian Norman.
In: Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 48, No. 2, 01.09.2017, p. 159-186.

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Atkinson, P & Gregory, IN 2017, 'Child welfare in Victorian newspapers: corpus-based discourse analysis', Journal of Interdisciplinary History, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 159-186. https://doi.org/10.1162/JINH_a_01124

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Atkinson, P., & Gregory, I. N. (2017). Child welfare in Victorian newspapers: corpus-based discourse analysis. Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 48(2), 159-186. https://doi.org/10.1162/JINH_a_01124

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Atkinson P, Gregory IN. Child welfare in Victorian newspapers: corpus-based discourse analysis. Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 2017 Sept 1;48(2):159-186. Epub 2017 Aug 23. doi: 10.1162/JINH_a_01124

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Atkinson, Paul ; Gregory, Ian Norman. / Child welfare in Victorian newspapers : corpus-based discourse analysis. In: Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 2017 ; Vol. 48, No. 2. pp. 159-186.

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