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6. Formulaic language in English academic writing

A corpus-based study of the formal and functional variation of a lexical phrase in different academic disciplines
  • David Oakey
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Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation
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© 2002 John Benjamins Publishing Company

© 2002 John Benjamins Publishing Company

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction vii
  4. Part I
  5. 1. Cross-disciplinary comparisons of hedging 3
  6. 2. Would as a hedging device in an Irish context 25
  7. 3. Good listenership made plain 49
  8. 4. Variation in the distribution of modal verbs in the British National Corpus 73
  9. 5. Strong modality and negation in Russian 91
  10. 6. Formulaic language in English academic writing 111
  11. 7. Lexical bundles in Freshman composition 131
  12. 8. Pseudo-Titles in the press genre of various components of the International Corpus of English 147
  13. 9. Pattern grammar, language teaching, and linguistic variation 167
  14. Part II
  15. 10. Syntactic features of Indian English 187
  16. 11. Variation in academic lectures 203
  17. Part III
  18. 12. The textual resolution of structural ambiguity in eighteenth-century English 227
  19. 13. Investigating register variation in nineteenth-century English 249
  20. Index 273
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.9.08oak

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction vii
  4. Part I
  5. 1. Cross-disciplinary comparisons of hedging 3
  6. 2. Would as a hedging device in an Irish context 25
  7. 3. Good listenership made plain 49
  8. 4. Variation in the distribution of modal verbs in the British National Corpus 73
  9. 5. Strong modality and negation in Russian 91
  10. 6. Formulaic language in English academic writing 111
  11. 7. Lexical bundles in Freshman composition 131
  12. 8. Pseudo-Titles in the press genre of various components of the International Corpus of English 147
  13. 9. Pattern grammar, language teaching, and linguistic variation 167
  14. Part II
  15. 10. Syntactic features of Indian English 187
  16. 11. Variation in academic lectures 203
  17. Part III
  18. 12. The textual resolution of structural ambiguity in eighteenth-century English 227
  19. 13. Investigating register variation in nineteenth-century English 249
  20. Index 273
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