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Download full textHu, Chunyu; Li, Yuanyuan – Higher Education Studies, 2015
Discourse connectives (DCs) are multi-functional devices used to connect discourse segments and fulfill interpersonal levels of discourse. This study investigates the use of selected 80 DCs within 11 categories in the argumentative essays produced by L1 and L2 university students. The analysis is based on the International Corpus Network of Asian…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Direct linkYao, 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
