A comparable-corpus-based study of informal features in academic writing by English and Chinese scholars across disciplines

This paper aims at quantitatively and qualitatively analyzing the use and distribution of informality features in a comparable corpus of research articles (rAs) written by L1 Chinese scholars (Css) and L1 English scholars (Ess) across four disciplines. The normalized frequencies of eleven informal f...

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Main Author: Gao Xia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos 2020-07-01
Series:Ibérica
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Online Access:http://www.aelfe.org/documents/39_05_IBERICA.pdf