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Research Ethics In Legal Writing: Challenges For Empirical Research, Alissa J. Hartig
Research Ethics In Legal Writing: Challenges For Empirical Research, Alissa J. Hartig
Applied Linguistics Faculty Publications and Presentations
The conference program for the 2018 LWI Biennial Conference provided evidence of a growing interest in empirical research in legal writing. Ann Nowak’s presentation, based on the article for which she received the Deborah Hecht Memorial Writing Award, and a panel by Shaun Spencer, Kenneth Chestek, Brian Larson, and Lance Long were just two out of a number of sessions devoted to such studies. Empirical research can come in many forms: while some scholars draw on publicly available documents, others conduct research that involves the participation of individuals who have been specifically recruited to help answer research questions. While both …
The Frequency And Use Of Lexical Bundles In Conversation And Academic Prose, Susan M. Conrad, Douglas Biber
The Frequency And Use Of Lexical Bundles In Conversation And Academic Prose, Susan M. Conrad, Douglas Biber
Applied Linguistics Faculty Publications and Presentations
In using a frequency-driven, fixed-word approach to identifying multi-word sequences, we follow Altenberg (1993, 1998), who carried out initial work of this type with spoken texts in the London-Lund corpus. Butler (1997) applies this approach to Spanish. In the Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English (Biber et al. 1999, chapter 13 ; hereafter the Longman Grammar), we emphasized the structures of lexical bundles, and discussed the structures' associations with various discourse functions. Here we summarize major findings of that work and then extend it, presenting an initial classification of the lexical bundles into functional categories. We continue to adopt …
Book Review Of, The Music Of Everyday Speech: Prosody And Discourse Analysis, John Hellermann
Book Review Of, The Music Of Everyday Speech: Prosody And Discourse Analysis, John Hellermann
Applied Linguistics Faculty Publications and Presentations
Reviews the book "The Music of Everyday Speech" by Ann K. Wennerstrom.