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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
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Kelly, Gregory J.; Bazerman, Charles – Applied Linguistics, 2003
Investigates ways students engage in scientific reasoning practices through the formulation of written argument. Through textual analyses of university students' scientific writing, examined how general theoretical claims are tied to specific data in constructing evidence. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Persuasive Discourse, Science Education
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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
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Sa'Adeddin, Mohammed Akram A. M. – Applied Linguistics, 1989
Translations of three Arabic texts into English illustrate the differences between the aural and visual modes of text development. An analysis of the function of these modes in their social contexts explains the problems of the negative transfer of habits from one language to another. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Arabic, Aural Learning, English (Second Language), Interference (Language)
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Kennedy, Graeme D. – Applied Linguistics, 1987
Examines how quantification is expressed in written English. Suggests ways of defining the categories of meanings a learner might need to be able to express and the linguistic devices used to realize these meanings. Categories of quantification are included. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Adverbs, Descriptive Linguistics, Determiners (Languages), English (Second Language)