Browsing by Author "Li, Liang"
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Bundle-driven move analysis: Sentence initial lexical bundles in PhD abstracts
(Elsevier, 2020)Rhetorical moves are discoursal units that perform communicative functions in a given genre. They have been manually identified in many previous studies taking a corpus-based approach, and these studies have provided ... -
Chinese postgraduates' explanation of the sources of sentence initial bundles in their thesis writing
(2018)Lexical bundles, recurrent multiword combinations in a register, are extremely common and important discourse building blocks in academic writing. An increasing number of studies have investigated lexical bundles in academic ... -
Sentence initial bundles in L2 thesis writing: A comparative study of Chinese L2 and New Zealand L1 postgraduates’ writing
(University of Waikato, 2016)Multiword combinations perform a crucial role in signifying fluency, accuracy and idiomaticity in academic writing. Lexical bundles are recurrent, but not salient, multi-word combinations, for example, on the other hand, ... -
Sentence initial bundles: A comparative study between Chinese master’s L2 theses and published writing
(Asian EFL Journal Press, 2018)Lexical bundles, like recurrent multi-word combinations, act as discourse frames in a register and so are potentially significant as markers of expertise. The present study compared sentence initial lexical bundles (i.e. ...
