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Chunmei Chen; Qingshun He – SAGE Open, 2024
Metaphor of modality in the Hallidayan linguistic framework is manifested through a transition from implicit modal expressions to explicit modal expressions, encompassing metaphor of modalization and metaphor of modulation. This article conducts a corpus-based investigation to examine the prevalence of metaphors of modalization in English academic…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computational Linguistics
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Fajri, Muchamad Sholakhuddin Al; Okwar, Victoria – SAGE Open, 2020
This corpus-based diachronic study aims to investigate the change in the use of English relative clauses over a 45-year time span. It does not only focus on change over time but also change between two varieties of English (British and American). The data were taken from the Brown family of corpora. Each corpus in the Brown family corpora consists…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Diachronic Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Language Usage