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LITERATURE, LINGUISTICS & CRITICISM

A corpus-based stylistic analysis of online suicide notes retrieved from Reddit

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Article: 2047434 | Received 25 Dec 2021, Accepted 23 Feb 2022, Published online: 06 Mar 2022

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