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The Cognitive and Communicative Functions of Term Variation in Research Articles: A Comparative Study in Psychology and Geology
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Fernández-Silva, Sabela – Applied Linguistics, 2019
This article reports a study about the behavior and functions of term variation in research articles (RAs) in Geology and Psychology. The aim of the study was twofold: first, to investigate the role of intra-textual term variation as a device for the representation and transfer of specialized knowledge; second, to explore whether there are…
Descriptors: Geology, Psychology, Research Reports, Comparative Analysis