A Move-marker List: A Study of Rhetorical Move-lexis Linguistic Realizations of Research Article Abstracts in Social and Behavioural Sciences.
While a wealth of research is available on the frequent multi-word units in academic genres, studies that exclusively link lexical sequences to the rhetorical moves in research articles (RAs) are fairly limited. This study involved compiling a corpus of 8,500 RA abstracts sampled from five disciplin...
| Publicado en: | RELC Journal Vol. 51; no. 3; pp. 381 - 397 |
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Sage Publications, Ltd.
Dec2020
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