Adversative and concessive conjunctions in EFL writing : corpus-based description and rhetorical structure analysis

Adversative and concessive conjunctions in EFL writing : corpus-based description and rhetorical structure analysis / Yan Zhang.

This book explores the usage patterns of a group of adversative and concessive conjunctions in English texts written by Chinese EFL learners and their native speaker counterparts. Focusing on probability profiles and systemic potentials, the study encompasses three stages and combines the strengths...

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Main Author: Zhang, Yan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer, 2021.
Subjects:
English language > Conjunctions.
English language > Study and teaching > Chinese speakers.
Linguistics.
Language and languages > Study and teaching.
linguistics.
English language > Conjunctions
English language > Study and teaching > Chinese speakers
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Conjunctions and Logico-Semantic Relations: A Review of Theoretical and Empirical Research
  • Combining Corpus-Based Description and Text-Based Analysis
  • An Overview of Adversative and Concessive Conjunctions in CLEC and BAWE-E
  • Co-occurrence Patterns of but in CLEC and BAWE-E
  • The Positioning of While-Clauses and the Implications for Understanding the Types of Logico-Semantic Relations of While
  • Analysis of however: clause positions and the implications for logico-semantic relations
  • Text-based analysis of adversavtive and concessive conjunctions
  • Conclusion.

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