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Wen, Ju; Lei, Lei – Applied Linguistics, 2022
Recent studies found linguistic positivity bias in academic writing, that is, researchers tend to present their works with more positive words than negative ones. The present study aims to examine the issue from a diachronic perspective, and it is probably the first one that employed a mixed method of both a small lexicon analysis and sentiment…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Academic Language, Writing (Composition), Computational Linguistics
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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