Adversative and Concessive Conjunctions in EFL Writing Corpus based Description and Rhetorical Structure Analysis 1st Edition by Yan Zhang ISBN 9811578370 9789811578373

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ISBN 10:  9811578370 
ISBN 13: 9789811578373
Author: Yan Zhang

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, applyingrhetorical 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.

Adversative and Concessive Conjunctions in EFL Writing Corpus based Description and Rhetorical Structure Analysis 1st Table of contents:

1. Introduction
2. Conjunctions and Logico-Semantic Relations: A Review of Theoretical and Empirical Research
3. Combining Corpus-Based Description and Text-Based Analysis
4. An Overview of Adversative and Concessive Conjunctions in CLEC and BAWE-E
5. Co-occurrence Patterns of but in CLEC and BAWE-E
6. The Positioning of While-Clauses and the Implications for Understanding the Types of Logico-Semantic Relations of While
7. Analysis of however: Clause Positions and the Implications for Logico-Semantic Relations
8. Text-Based Analysis of Adversative and Concessive Conjunctions
9. Conclusion

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