doi: 10.18178/IJLLL.2023.9.6.454
The Analysis of Grammatical Cohesive Devices in the Abstract of Academic Discourse
Ya Xu
,
Yi Zhang *
- school of foreign studies, Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), Shaanxi, Xi’an, CO 710000 China.
Abstract
Coherent writing skills have a strong correlationwith the quality of English writing. Abstract, as a relativelyindependent and complete discourse form that condenses thecontent of academic discourse, can predict and dominate thecontent and structure of the main text. This paper collects a totalof 40 academic paper abstracts in the discipline of appliedlinguistics, 20 from Chinese students and 20 from internationalscholars, to compare the different distribution of cohesivedevices between Chinese student writers and internationalJournal writers. Based on the study, we find that there is nosignificant difference in the frequency, type, and control ofcohesive devices used by Chinese students and internationalscholars. But Chinese students overuse some types of cohesivedevices, especially in the use of the conjunctive device “and”.The use of “I” has never appeared in the corpus of Chinesestudents and the usage of “we” has been used by Chinese studentwriters and international Journal writers. This paper also showsthat Chinese English majors actively keep up with internationaljournals and have a sense of international writing in the processof learning writing.
Keywords
- Abstract
- academic discourse
- contrastivestudy
- cohesive device
How to Cite
Ya Xu and Yi Zhang, "The Analysis of Grammatical Cohesive Devices in the Abstract of Academic Discourse," International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 472-477, 2023. https://doi.org/10.18178/IJLLL.2023.9.6.454
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