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Intercultural Perspectives on Research Writing
Edited by Pilar Mur-Dueñas and Jolanta Šinkūnienė
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series 18] 2018
► pp. 237–253

Chapter 11
Not the same, but how different?

Comparing the use of reformulation markers in ELF and in ENL research articles

| Universidad de Zaragoza

Reformulation markers can be considered indicators of rhetorical conventions (Cuenca, 2003). In this paper I contrast these markers in the SciELF corpus of unedited research papers (building on previous work [Murillo, submitted]) and in a comparable ENL (English as a Native Language) corpus (SERAC), focusing on the overall frequency, the relative frequency of each marker and the discourse processes they introduce (Murillo, 2012). The results reveal statistically significant differences between the two corpora regarding the specific choice of reformulation markers and the processes introduced by them. Further, the “similects” of the SciELF corpus (Mauranen, 2012) present very different trends. ELF does not seem to constitute a homogeneous use of the English language, at least at the lexico-grammatical level.

Keywords: reformulation markers, intercultural rhetoric, written academic English, English as a Lingua Franca, English as a Native Language, research articles, SciELF corpus, SERAC corpus, similects, hard and soft sciences
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Functions of reformulation markers
  • 3.Corpus and methodology
  • 4.Results and discussion
  • 5.Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
  • Corpora
Published online: 6 December 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/aals.18.11mur
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2016 English as a Native Language - Spanish-English Research Article Corpus. InterLAE research group. Universidad de Zaragoza. [URL]
SciELF
2015 The SciELF Corpus. Director: Anna Mauranen. Compilation manager: Ray Carey. [URL]
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