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Capturing linguistic features of writing in two genres over time
This study investigates trajectories of L2 development in writing in two genres over multiple time points in a semester-long ESL writing program....
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BE Like Simile Usage Across Genres in the COCA
Despite its high frequency, simile usage is often overlooked in both linguistic research and English language teaching. In the current study, I...
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Remodeling effects of linguistic features on L2 writing quality of two genres
This study modeled the effects of essay length and language features on the rated quality of second language (L2) expository and argumentative essays...
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Towards a Discursive History of the Caribbean as a History of Genres
The investigation of text formats beyond literary genres has so far been the exception in research literature on World Englishes and English-related...
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New Trends on Metadiscourse An Analysis of Online and Textual Genres
This edited book gives an updated overview of methods of analysis of academic and non-academic genres in a digital era. The advent of digital and...
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The implementation of writing pedagogies in the Write to Read intervention in low-SES primary schools in Ireland
This study describes the initial implementation of the writing component of the Write to Read ( W2R ) literacy intervention in eight low-SES...
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“Where Does the Science Go?”: An Ethnographic Study of Chemistry PhD Students Learning Science Communication Genres
This chapter describes an ethnographic study of four women Chemists: three PhD students and one post-doc researcher, who participated in an ongoing...
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Reconceptualisation of Genre(s) in Scholarly and Scientific Digital Practices: A Look at Multimodal Online Genres for the Dissemination of Science
This chapter looks into an online genre resulting from recent scholarly and scientific digital practices: popular science online videos. These are...
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Automatic genre identification: a survey
Automatic genre identification (AGI) is a text classification task focused on genres, i.e., text categories defined by the author’s purpose, common...
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Power and Personal Experience in Online Anonymous Communities: A Corpus-Driven Exploration
The paper presents an innovative corpus study on Personal Experience as a pragmatic-discursive resource to express power in anonymous online...
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A benchmark dataset and evaluation methodology for Chinese zero pronoun translation
The phenomenon of zero pronoun (ZP) has attracted increasing interest in the machine translation community due to its importance and difficulty....
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Research Visibility and Speaker Ethos: A Comparative Study of Researcher Identity in 3MT Presentations and Research Group Videos
This study analyses researcher identity projection in two digitally mediated genres, both addressed to non-specialist audiences: three-minute thesis...
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A Metadiscoursal Approach to Academic Writers’ Construal of Identities Across Brief Reports and Case Reports in Medical Science
The functional approach to language highlights the importance of context in language description (Halliday, 1975), with the text seen as an instance...
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Introduction
Metadiscoursemetadiscourse has been widely used as an umbrella term in the field of discoursediscourse analysis for the ways producers...
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Discourse synthesis: Textual transformations in writing from sources
Research into discourse synthesis examines the ways in which writers make use of, and transform, multiple other texts in writing their own. It is...
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Introducing Science to the Public in 3-Minute Talks: Verbal and Non-verbal Engagement Strategies
In recent times, science is becoming available to the public. In that sense, online genres have become a tool to democratise science. Among those new...
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Dissemination of Knowledge During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Conceptual Metaphor Analysis of Research and Popular Articles
During the COVID-19 pandemic, research in medical science gained much importance as people had serious concerns about their lives. Latest scientific...
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Translating Non-fictional Genres: Voice-over and Off-screen Dubbing
This chapter presents the main features of voice-over and off-screen dubbing in relation to non-fictional genres, from traditional documentaries to...
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Translating Humor for Children in Beijia Huang’s I Want To Be Good
This article examines the translation of humor in《我要做好孩子》( Wo Yao Zuo Hao Hai Zi , I Want To Be Good ) by Beijia Huang, first published in 1996, and...
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Do EFL learners use different grammatical complexity features in writing across registers?
In successful writing development, English as a foreign language (EFL) learners not only need to acquire grammatical complexity (GC) features but...
