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Direct linkCharles, Maggie – English for Specific Purposes, 2006
This study investigates the phraseological patterning that occurs in reporting clauses used to make references to others' research. It examines finite reporting clauses with "that"-clause complement and draws upon two corpora of theses written by native speakers in contrasting disciplines: approximately 190,000 words in politics/international…
Descriptors: Citations (References), Verbs, Semantics, Morphemes
Charles, Maggie – English for Specific Purposes, 2007
This paper uses a corpus approach to investigate disciplinary variation in the construction of stance using nouns which are followed by "that" and a complement clause, "e.g. the argument that the Justices exhibit strategic behaviour..." Two corpora of theses written in English are examined: approximately 190,000 words in politics/international…
Descriptors: Semantics, Politics, International Relations, Nouns
Groom, Nicholas – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2005
Work in corpus linguistics has led to the development of a theory of language as "phraseology" [Hunston, S., & Francis, G. (1999). "Pattern grammar: A corpus-driven approach to the lexical grammar of English." Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Sinclair, J. M. (1991). "Corpus, concordance, collocation." Oxford: Oxford University Press. Sinclair, J. M.…
Descriptors: Grammar, Literary Criticism, Book Reviews, Computational Linguistics
