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Publication details [#55462]

Lim, Jason Miin-Hwa. 2011. ‘Paving the way for research findings’: Writers’ rhetorical choices in education and applied linguistics. Discourse Studies 13 (6) : 725–749.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative function | corpus analysis | language choice | research article | rhetoric

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Drawing on data from two research report corpora in applied linguistics and education, this study discusses ways authors set the stage for their findings, interdisciplinary 'staging' dissimilarities, and the links between language choices and communicative functions.