Squibs and Discussion 1 Introduction

Squibs and Replies: Copula Omission Is a Grammatical Reflex

Squibs and snobs: science in humorous British undergraduate magazines around 1830.

A Comparative Study of Introduction and Discussion sections of Sub-disciplines of Applied Linguistics Research Articles

Much has been written in the past few decades about the reasons why many research articles (RAs) do not find their ways into well-established academic journals. While some doubt viable comparison between "big" English-language journals (to use Swales' 2004 words) or international journals (IJs) and "small" ones published in other local languages, there is still a good many reasons to hope for t...

Validation markers in introduction and results and discussion sections of research articles from four disciplines

In the last three decades, genre of research article, among other genres of academic writings, hasreceived the greatest attention. This attention is due to the vital role that research article plays inthe legitimating of claims and disciplines. Johns and Swales (2002) relate this attention to theintensive review process that research article goes through before getting “valorized and ratifiedby...

Some implicatures are conversational, but others are conventional: a developmental implicature study

15 INTRODUCTION 16 EXPERIMENT 1 18 METHOD 19 RESULTS 21 DISCUSSION 22 EXPERIMENT 2 23 METHOD 23 RESULTS 24 DISCUSSION 26 EXPERIMENT 3 27 METHOD 27 RESULTS 28 GENERAL DISCUSSION 29 REFERENCES 33 CHAPTER 3 ‘BUT’ HOW DO WE REASON WITH IT: AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THE IMPLICATURE STEMMING FROM ‘BUT’ 35 ABSTRACT 35 INTRODUCTION 36 EXPERIMENT 1 44 METHOD 4435 INTRODUCTION 36 EXPERIMENT 1 44 M...