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Peer reviewedMarco, Maria Jose Luzon – English for Specific Purposes, 2000
Focuses on the usefulness of corpus-based analysis to discover linguistic patterns selected and favored by a specific genre. Results show that the frameworks "the . . . of,""A . . . of," and "be . . .to," when used in medical papers, enclose restricted sets of lexical items and that the selection of specific…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English for Science and Technology, Language Patterns, Language Styles
Peer reviewedMalcolm, Lois – English for Specific Purposes, 1987
Analysis of tense usage in 20 scientific articles from the "Journal of Pediatrics" reveals a hierarchy of sociolinguistic relationships among context-dependent rhetorical functions, context-independent temporal meanings, and actual tense choices. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English for Science and Technology, Language Styles, Language Usage
