Publications
2018
- Hafner, C. A. (2018). Spoken interaction in an academic legal context: The discourse of the arbitration moot. In G. Tessuto, V. K. Bhatia, & J. Engberg (Eds.), Frameworks for discursive contexts and practices of the law (pp. 175–194). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars.
- Hafner, C. A., & Wang, S. H. (2018). Hong Kong Learner Corpus of Legal Academic Writing in English: A Study of Boosters as a Marked Language Form in an English-Medium Instruction Context. TESOL Quarterly, 52(3), 680–691. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesq.451
- Hafner, C. A., Lynch, K., Scully-Hill, A., Burke, J., & Sharma, R. (2018). Designing and Evaluating Digital Multimedia Resources for Legal English: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Innovation. International Journal of Language & Law, 7. https://doi.org/10.14762/jll.2018.142
2017
2015
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