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Kai Bao; Meihua Liu – SAGE Open, 2023
This article compared three-word move-specific lexical bundles (MLBs) in dissertation abstracts authored by linguistics doctoral students from China and the United States. Two separate corpora were constructed for analysis: (1) The China Linguistics PhD Abstracts Corpus (CLC), consisting of 700 abstracts totaling 613,713 words generated by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Dissertations, Lexicology, Text Structure
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Termjai, Mana; Cedar, Payung; Suwannasom, Thitirat – English Language Teaching, 2022
This research investigated the typical grammatical structures, topics, and address terms for the victims in the news of Tham Luang cave rescue on Twitter published by four broadcasters: Bangkok Post, CNN International, BBC World News, and ABC News. The sample was 454 news tweets posted by the broadcasters between June 25, 2018 and July 15, 2018.…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, News Reporting, Social Media, Foreign Countries
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Al-juboori, Ali; Mustafa, Sabah S. – Arab World English Journal, 2022
Deception is a misrepresentation of reality that attracted many researchers examining it from various perspectives. However, no due attention has been given to the discursive deception strategies in the work of think tanks. This study aims at exposing the deception strategies deployed in the conservative American think tanks' discourse which…
Descriptors: Deception, Pragmatics, Persuasive Discourse, Political Attitudes