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Li, Haiying; Graesser, Arthur C.; Conley, Mark; Cai, Zhiqiang; Pavlik, Philip I., Jr.; Pennebaker, James W. – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2016
Formality has long been of interest in the study of discourse, with periodic discussions of the best measure of formality and the relationship between formality and text categories. In this research, we explored what features predict formality as humans perceive the construct. We categorized a corpus consisting of 1,158 discourse samples published…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Comparative Analysis, Speeches
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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