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- Presents a comprehensive, in-depth analysis of adversative and concessive conjunctions in native and non-native students’ writing under the theoretical framework of systemic functional linguistics
- Includes high-frequency patterns of adversative and concessive conjunction usage in successful native student writing for EFL teachers and learners
- Helps bridge the divide between corpus-based study and text-level analysis
- Offers new insights into the relevance of adversative and concessive relations to text structure based on rhetorical structure theory
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Book Title: Adversative and Concessive Conjunctions in EFL Writing
Book Subtitle: Corpus-based Description and Rhetorical Structure Analysis
Authors: Yan Zhang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7837-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-7836-6Published: 02 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-7839-7Published: 03 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-7837-3Published: 01 October 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 234
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Linguistics, general, Comparative Linguistics, Language Education