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Download full textMéndez, David I.; Alcaraz, M. Ángeles – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
In this study we compare the titles of scientific letters and those of research papers published in the field of astrophysics in order to identify the possible differences and/or similarities between both genres in terms of several linguistic and extra-linguistic variables (length, lexical density, number of prepositions, number of compound…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Form Classes (Languages), Letters (Correspondence)
Skalicky, Stephen; Berger, Cynthia M.; Crossley, Scott A.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
A corpus of 313 freshman college essays was analyzed in order to better understand the forms and functions of humor in academic writing. Human ratings of humor and wordplay were statistically aggregated using Factor Analysis to provide an overall "Humor" component score for each essay in the corpus. In addition, the essays were also…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Academic Discourse, Humor, Writing (Composition)
