Adversative and Concessive Conjunctions in EFL Writing Corpus-based
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 encompa
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Adversative and Concessive Conjunctions in EFL Writing Corpus-based Description and Rhetorical Structure Analysis
Adversative and Concessive Conjunctions in EFL Writing
Yan Zhang
Adversative and Concessive Conjunctions in EFL Writing Corpus-based Description and Rhetorical Structure Analysis
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Yan Zhang East China University of Science and Technology Shanghai, China
ISBN 978-981-15-7836-6 ISBN 978-981-15-7837-3 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7837-3
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Preface
This work is a comparative study of adversative and concessive conjunctions in English texts written by Chinese EFL learners and the native-speaker writers, who are comparable in age and educational stage. Adversative and concessive conjunctions are expressions that indicate semantic relations of contrast and concession between text spans of varying extent. According to Halliday and Matthiessen’s (2004) systemic account of clause complexing and CONJUNCTION, adversative and concessive conjunctions fall into two broad syntactic categories, i.e., structural conjunctions that link or bind clauses within the domain of a single clause complex (e.g., but, although, etc.) and cohesive conjunctions that typically mark relations beyond the clause complex (e.g., however, nevertheless, etc.). In view of the meaning relations, these conjunctions represent two different semantic categorie
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