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‘You said, we did’: A corpus-based analysis of marketising discourse in healthcare websites

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‘You said, we did’: A corpus-based analysis of marketising discourse in healthcare websites. / Chałupnik, Małgorzata; Brookes, Gavin.
In: Text and Talk, Vol. 41, No. 5-6, 26.10.2021.

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Chałupnik, M & Brookes, G 2021, '‘You said, we did’: A corpus-based analysis of marketising discourse in healthcare websites', Text and Talk, vol. 41, no. 5-6. https://doi.org/10.1515/text-2020-0038

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Chałupnik, M., & Brookes, G. (2021). ‘You said, we did’: A corpus-based analysis of marketising discourse in healthcare websites. Text and Talk, 41(5-6). https://doi.org/10.1515/text-2020-0038

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Chałupnik M, Brookes G. ‘You said, we did’: A corpus-based analysis of marketising discourse in healthcare websites. Text and Talk. 2021 Oct 26;41(5-6). Epub 2021 Aug 12. doi: 10.1515/text-2020-0038

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Chałupnik, Małgorzata ; Brookes, Gavin. / ‘You said, we did’ : A corpus-based analysis of marketising discourse in healthcare websites. In: Text and Talk. 2021 ; Vol. 41, No. 5-6.

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