عنوان مقاله :
A Corpus-based Analysis of Noun Phrase Complexity in Research Article Part-genres in Applied Linguistics and Clinical Medicine
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پديد آورندگان :
Rajab, Esfandiari Imam Khomeini International University, Iran , Mohammad, Ahmadi Imam Khomeini International University, Iran
كليدواژه :
research articles , phrasal complexity , part-genres , clinical medicine , applied linguistics , academic disciplines
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چكيده لاتين :
Complexity measures in academic writing have experienced a
shift from clausal to phrasal indices in recent years. Drawing on a
subset of Biber et al.‟s (2011) hypothesized stages of writing
development, we explored phrasal complexity across sections
(part-genres) of research articles (RAs) in applied linguistics and
clinical medicine. A 389,332-word corpus consisting of 80
randomly selected RAs from leading journals in applied
linguistics and clinical medicine was compiled for the purposes of
the present study. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and
independent-samples t-test, as implemented in SPSS (version 25),
were employed to find differences across the RA sections and
between two groups of academic writers. The findings indicated
that RAs in clinical medicine relied more heavily on noun phrase
modifiers in all sections than those in applied linguistics,
suggesting that the distributional pattern of these linguistic
expressions is discipline-independent. The implications of the
distributional pattern of phrasal complexity are discussed in
relation to L2 writing pedagogy and the development of genrebased,
discipline-specific academic writing.
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