J. Elliott Casal

List of John Benjamins publications for which J. Elliott Casal plays a role.

Articles

Shell nouns (SNs; e.g., fact and problem) are an open group of abstract nouns defined functionally through use as emergent ‘shells’ referencing and labeling ideas in surrounding discourse. This paper analyzes the ‘this/these + [SN]’ pattern in second language (L2) English Master’s theses and… read more
Yoon, Jungwan and J. Elliott Casal 2020 P-frames and rhetorical moves in applied linguistics conference abstractsAdvances in Corpus-based Research on Academic Writing: Effects of discipline, register, and writer expertise, Römer-Barron, Ute, Viviana Cortes and Eric Friginal (eds.), pp. 281–306 | Chapter
This chapter examines the use of formulaic phrase frames (p-frames) in the rhetorical construction of Applied Linguistics Conference Abstracts (CAs). We consider both the distribution of p-frames across rhetorical moves/steps and the strength of the association of p-frames with individual… read more