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Handbook of Research on Discourse Behavior and Digital Communication: Language Structures and Social Interaction
is an integrated suite of programs for looking at how words behave in texts, it has several tools aiming at highlighting typical collocational and syntactic patterns.
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A Corpus-Based Approach to Teaching English in Abstracts
Amelia AMaria Cava (University of Naples Federcio II, Italy)
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-773-2.ch038
Abstract
In the academic field abstract is the first genre that students need to become familiar with. Abstracts have been investigated on structure and language by Swales (1990), Bhatia (1993, 1997), dos Santos (1996), Cremmins (1982) and Day (1989) or by international organizations such as ISO and ANSI. Every academic journal presents its personal guidelines on how to write abstracts properly but generally, undergraduate students do not have a clear idea about how to write them. The main purpose of the present research study is to analyze the language used by authors with a pedagogical intent. The investigation is a corpus-based analysis setting out to highlight certain lexico-grammatical features specifically related to the ‘research-process language’. The data are drawn from a corpus of 6 years of three international journals: The International Journal of Primatology, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation and Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics.
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