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Uba, Sani Yantandu – English Language Teaching, 2020
This paper investigates semantic categories of reporting verbs across four disciplines: Accounting, Applied Linguistics, Engineering and Medicine in research article genre. A general corpus of one million words and sub-corpus (for each discipline) were compiled from a total of 120 articles representing 30 articles from each discipline. In this…
Descriptors: Semantics, Research Reports, Journal Articles, Computational Linguistics
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Behnam, Biook; Mirzapour, Fatemeh – English Language Teaching, 2012
Writers use intensity markers as one of strategies in order to negotiate their claims and to make their writings persuasive and credible. This study is an attempt to examine the type, frequency, and functions of intensity markers in research articles of two disciplines of Applied Linguistics and Electrical Engineering by analyzing surface…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Engineering Education, Literary Devices, Educational Research