“Establish a niche” via negation: A corpus-based study of negation within the Move 2 sections of PhD thesis introductions

The past few decades have witnessed an upsurge of scholarly interest in the generic descriptions of PhD theses following Swales’ seminal Genre Analysis. Fitted within the Create A Research Space (CARS) model, the thesis introduction plays a key role in justifying research originality/significance, w...

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Main Authors: Sun Shuyi, Crosthwaite Peter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2022-05-01
Series:Open Linguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2022-0190