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Deroey, Katrien L. B. – Applied Linguistics, 2015
This paper provides a comprehensive overview of lexicogrammatical markers of important lecture points and proposes a classification in terms of their interactive and textual orientation. The importance markers were extracted from the British Academic Spoken English corpus using corpus-driven and corpus-based methods. The classification is based on…
Descriptors: Classification, English, Academic Discourse, Computational Linguistics
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Ketabi, Saeed; Rahavard, Shaahin – English Language Teaching, 2013
Genre analysis of texts has always been significant. The current study aimed at investigating intertextuality considering cultural variations and differences in students' discourse communities. Social studies, philosophy, and biology were chosen as the representatives of social sciences, humanities and sciences. Tehran University, one of the most…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Intellectual Disciplines, Masters Theses, Academic Discourse
Akbas, Erdem, Ed.; Hatipoglu, Ciler, Ed.; Bayyurt, Yasemin, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
This is the book of abstracts for the conference held in 2017 entitled: ''METADISCOURSE ACROSS GENRES: MAPPING INTERACTION IN SPOKEN & WRITTEN DISCOURSES'', also known as MAG2017. The 1st International Conference on Metadiscourse Across Genres took place in METU Northern Cyprus Campus, Cyprus between 30 March-1 April 2017 with the…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Written Language, Discourse Analysis, Computational Linguistics
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Tessuto, Girolamo – English for Specific Purposes, 2011
This paper seeks to analyse discourse patterns of legal opinions in two languages and cultures--namely, Legal Problem Question Answers (LPQs) in the UK academic writing context and Pareri (Ps) in the Italian professional writing context. The qualitative and quantitative analysis of discourse in this paper, based on the tenets of genre analysis,…
Descriptors: Legal Problems, English, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Yao, Xinyue; Collins, Peter – World Englishes, 2012
This paper reports on a comprehensive corpus-based study of regional and stylistic variation in the distribution of the English present perfect. The data represents ten English varieties of both the Inner Circle and Outer Circle, covering four major text types: conversation, news reportage, academic and fictional writing. The results are discussed…
Descriptors: Language Variation, North American English, Computational Linguistics, Language Styles
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Loi, Chek Kim – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2010
This study investigates the rhetorical organisation of English and Chinese research article introductions in the field of educational psychology using (Swales, 1990) and (Swales, 2004) framework of move analysis. A corpus of 40 research articles (20 Chinese and 20 English) was selected. The English research articles, written by first-language…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Educational Psychology, English, Native Speakers
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Baumgarten, Nicole – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2008
The present article investigates writer-reader interaction through the construction of writer and reader personae in English and German popular scientific writing by means of first person plural pronouns in subject position. Popular scientific writing only became firmly established as a German-language genre in the last quarter of the 20th century…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Linguistic Borrowing, Translation, Scientific Research