In:Learning the Language of Dentistry: Disciplinary corpora in the teaching of English for Specific Academic Purposes
Peter Crosthwaite and Lisa Cheung
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 93] 2019
► pp. 27–54
Chapter 2‘Extracting’ the linguistic dimensions of dentistry experimental
research articles
Published online: 20 August 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.93.c2
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.93.c2
Article outline
- 2.1Introduction
- 2.2Corpus construction
- 2.3MDA Version 1: Comparison with Biber’s (1988) dimensions
- 2.4MAT analyses across Biber’s (1988) dimensions
- 2.5MDA Version 2: The functional dimensions of dentistry research
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- 2.5.1Function 1 – Confirming findings as facts
- 2.5.2Function 2: Categorising patient types
- 2.5.3Dimension 1: Narrative vs. non-narrative concerns
- 2.5.4Dimension 2: Active vs. passive
- 2.5.5Dimension 3: Involved vs. informational discourse
- 2.5.6Dentistry vs. General medical research reports
- 2.6Discipline-specific lexis and phraseology
- 2.7Chapter Summary
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