Investigating style in a corpus of pharmaceutical leaflets: results of a factor analysis
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In this paper we present an analysis of stylistic variation that uses a factor analytic technique to group the variables responsible for the bulk of the linguistic variation found in a corpus of pharmaceutical leaflets. Two main factors of variation were found and analysed in more detail; they also were compared with other two analyses.
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