Advances in the Linguistic Sciences
Adversative Conjunctions as Vehicles for the Communication of Stance in the Vanguard Newspaper Editorials
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- Destiny Idegbekwe*
Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Education, University of Africa, Toru-Orua, Bayelsa State, Nigeria
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