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Zheng, Xindi – English Language Teaching, 2021
This study investigates the transitivity structure of research articles and examines the variations of process types across sections, aiming to explore experiential meaning construction in academic discourse. The corpus for this study consists of ten applied linguistics research articles published from 2018 to 2020 in the top journals of the…
Descriptors: Research Reports, Academic Language, Discourse Analysis, Computational Linguistics
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Fitri, Nidya; Artawa, Ketut; Satywati, Made Sri; Sawirman – English Language Teaching, 2019
The usage of hedges in trial discourse context is interested to be explored. This paper presents a description of phenomena related to the use of hedges by witnesses and experts in Indonesian court trial. It focuses on the usage of hedges in the form of words, phrases, clauses, and utterances in court trial context. Conversation among participants…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Court Litigation, Indonesian, Discourse Analysis
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Xu, Qi – English Language Teaching, 2016
The paper gives an overview of learner corpora and their application to second language learning and teaching. It is proposed that there are four core components in learner corpus research, namely, corpus linguistics expertise, a good background in linguistic theory, knowledge of SLA theory, and a good understanding of foreign language teaching…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Computational Linguistics, Second Language Instruction
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He, Qingshun – English Language Teaching, 2016
English language learners may be confused in identifying the grammatical category of such conjunctive expressions as "before," "after" and "since" introducing non-finite "-ing" clauses. In this article, we will conduct a corpus-based investigation of hypotactic conjunctions and conjunctive prepositions…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Form Classes (Languages)
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Xu, Jian – English Language Teaching, 2009
Based on a review of the historical and current studies on modality, this paper aims at interpreting metaphor of modality and its functions in advertising English according to theories of modality system and metaphor of modality in systemic-functional linguistics with a corpus we have collected. It is pointed out that metaphor of modality, a usual…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Advertising, Figurative Language, Second Language Learning