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Title
Adversative and concessive conjunctions in EFL writing : corpus-based description and rhetorical structure analysis / Yan Zhang.
ISBN
9789811578373 (electronic bk.)
9811578370 (electronic bk.)
9811578362
9789811578366
Published
Singapore : Springer, 2021.
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 234 pages : illustrations (black and white))
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-15-7837-3 doi
Call Number
PE1345 .Z43 2021eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
425.7
Summary
This book explores the usage patterns of a group of adversative and concessive conjunctions in English texts written by Chinese EFL learners and their native speaker counterparts. Focusing on probability profiles and systemic potentials, the study encompasses three stages and combines the strengths of two research methods - the corpus-based approach and text-based analysis - to examine the conjunctions under the theoretical framework of systemic functional linguistics and rhetorical structure theory. Starting with an overview of seventeen conjunctions across two corpora in terms of overall frequency, positional distribution and distribution of semantic categories, the book then offers a more detailed discussion of three individual conjunctions, highlighting the interconnections between 1) syntactic positions and co-occurrence patterns and 2) semantic relations encoded by these conjunctions. Lastly, it presents a case study of one full-length text taken from the learner corpus, applying rhetorical structure theory to provide new insights into the relevance of adversative and concessive relations to text structure. This comprehensive, in-depth analysis is both diagnostic and pedagogically informative.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 1, 2020).
Introduction
Conjunctions and Logico-Semantic Relations: A Review of Theoretical and Empirical Research
Combining Corpus-Based Description and Text-Based Analysis
An Overview of Adversative and Concessive Conjunctions in CLEC and BAWE-E
Co-occurrence Patterns of but in CLEC and BAWE-E
The Positioning of While-Clauses and the Implications for Understanding the Types of Logico-Semantic Relations of While
Analysis of however: clause positions and the implications for logico-semantic relations
Text-based analysis of adversavtive and concessive conjunctions
Conclusion.
