Exemplification in Chinese English-major MA students? and expert writers? academic writing: A local grammar based investigation
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-1-2022
Abstract
This study adopts a local grammar approach to investigate exemplification in Chinese Englishmajor MA student writers' and expert writers' academic writing. Using corpora compiled of Chinese English-major MA students' degree dissertations and expert writers' published research articles in the field of Applied Linguistics as the data, the investigation shows that although the Chinese MA student writers used exemplification as frequently as expert writers to specify abstract superordinate categories, they underused exemplification with regard to aspects such as performative verbs, exemplificatory imperatives, and the strategy of exemplifying by citing relevant studies. The implications of local grammar based investigation into academic writing for EAP writing research and pedagogy are further discussed.
Keywords
Local grammar, Exemplification, Chinese English -major MA students, Expert writing
Divisions
FLL
Funders
China National Social Science Foundation (Grant No. 19CYY044)
Publication Title
Journal Of English For Academic Purposes
Volume
58
Publisher
Elsevier
Publisher Location
RADARWEG 29, 1043 NX AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS