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Zhang, Man – Applied Linguistics, 2022
Until now, there has been very little unified analysis of metadiscourse across speech and writing. Drawing on a reflexive metadiscourse model, this article conducts a multidimensional analysis of metadiscourse across 10 spoken and written registers in a corpus of 626 texts. Two metadiscourse dimensions, participants' interaction and discourse…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Language Variation, Written Language, Discourse Analysis
Mancilla, Rae L.; Polat, Nihat; Akcay, Ahmet O. – Applied Linguistics, 2017
This manuscript reports on a corpus-based comparison of native and nonnative graduate students' language production in an asynchronous learning environment. Using 486 discussion board postings from a five-year period (2009-2013), we analyzed the extent to which native and nonnative university students' writing differed in 10 measures of syntactic…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Written Language
Sauro, Shannon; Smith, Bryan – Applied Linguistics, 2010
This study examines the linguistic complexity and lexical diversity of both overt and covert L2 output produced during synchronous written computer-mediated communication, also referred to as chat. Video enhanced chatscripts produced by university learners of German (N = 23) engaged in dyadic task-based chat interaction were coded and analyzed for…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Discourse Analysis, Second Language Learning, Written Language

de Beaugrande, Robert – Applied Linguistics, 2001
The discourse of a recent position paper by H.G. Widdowson is analyzed by using three methods criticized in Widdowson's paper. The paper was converted into a miniature data corpus and analyzed with the concepts of systemic functional linguistics, corpus linguistics, and critical discourse analysis. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Criticism, Discourse Analysis, Written Language

McKenna, Bernard – Applied Linguistics, 1997
Trials an analysis of engineering reports using a modified version of Gosden's (1993) analysis of the science research article. Using Hallidayan sociolinguistic concepts, the analysis demonstrates how engineering writers linguistically convert real-world entities and processes into non-real-world concepts. The article also tracks authorial…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Discourse Analysis, Engineering, Language Processing

Johnson, Donna M. – Applied Linguistics, 1992
Reports on an analysis of the forms, strategies, and functions of complimenting in one genre of written discourse. It is argued that writers use complimenting discourse strategies to establish and maintain rapport and to mitigate both global and genre-specific face-threatening acts and that these social purposes help account for both their…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Interpersonal Communication, Language Patterns, Peer Evaluation

Gosden, Hugh – Applied Linguistics, 1993
Reports on one important component of language by means of which scientific Research Article (RA) writers structure textual interaction with the external community, namely choices of unmarked theme, i.e., grammatical subject. A functional analysis is presented that reveals how the changing discourse roles of subjects throughout scientific RAs…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English for Academic Purposes, Grammar, Language Research

Marco, Maria Jose Luzon – Applied Linguistics, 1999
Explores the function of items of procedural vocabulary as signals of conceptual relations in scientific discourse. Procedural vocabulary consists of lexical items that do not belong to any particular schema. Develops a taxonomy of procedural items in terms of the contextual relations they create between content-bearing words, classifying the…
Descriptors: Classification, Discourse Analysis, Lexicology, Sciences

Myers, Greg – Applied Linguistics, 1989
Study of the pragmatics of politeness conventionally draws on conversational data, but can be extended to some genres of written text. A framework is described that analyzes politeness strategies in terms of impositions (claims and denials of claims) and reveals some stylistic features in scientific papers and in popularizations. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Styles

Sindermann, Gerda; Horsella, Maria – Applied Linguistics, 1989
Part of a research project is presented that aims at identifying the difficulties tertiary level students encounter in reading scientific texts in a foreign language and the strategies they apply to overcome them. Strategy markers are identified and listed, and are then analyzed to interpret the linguistic difficulty and the strategy used.…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Language Research

Giannoni, Davide Simone – Applied Linguistics, 2002
Examines the socio-pragmatic construction and textualization of scholarly Acknowledgements in English and Italian journals from a genre-analytic perspective. Points of difference or similarity between corpora and academic cultures are explored with special attention to such issues as generic complexity and staging, personal involvement, and peer…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Differences, Discourse Analysis, English

Keenan, Susan K. – Applied Linguistics, 1993
Written apologies of deaf students were examined from data obtained from a discourse completion test. Results show that both word choice and word order give a routinized feel to the apologies, in part attributable to American Sign Language; and that strategy choices may reflect a culture-specific view of social offenses. (Contains 44 references.)…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Applied Linguistics, Cultural Context, Deafness