Structural Variation of Directives in University Classroom Discourse: A Corpus-Based Investigation

ABSTRACT The present study examines structural variation of directives1 across different situational contexts in university lectures. The data comes from the lecture component of a large corpus of university discourse2. The following analytical steps were taken: 1) possible linguistic patterns of di...

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Main Author: Elnaz Kia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo 2021-03-01
Series:DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-44502020000300411&tlng=en