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“Doing Explicit” in hospitality and tourism service encounters in English as a lingua franca 在酒店和旅游服务中以英语作为通用语言进行“明确”的交流

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2023.01.003

Aonrumpa Thongphut, Jagdish Kaur

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Towards a communication-focused ESP course for nursing students in building partnership with patients: A needs analysis 面向护生的以沟通为中心的ESP课程:需求分析

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2022.11.006

Qing Huang , Qianwen Joyce Yu

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Content adaptations in English-medium instruction: Comparing L1 and English-medium lectures 英语教学中的内容适应:比较母语和英语教学

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2023.01.005

Beatrice Zuaro

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Stance constructions in CEO statements of CSR reports of Chinese and US companies 中美企业社会责任报告CEO声明中的立场建构

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2023.01.004

Jing Liu , Qingrong Liu

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Coloniality and social sciences research: ERPP realities and border thinking in the Arab world 殖民与社会科学研究：ERPP在阿拉伯世界的现实与边界思维

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2023.01.002

Anoud Abusalim

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Disciplinary and gender-based variations: A frame-based analysis of interest markers in research articles 学科和性别差异：基于框架的研究文章兴趣标记分析

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2022.12.006

Qian Wang , Guangwei Hu

{"title":"Disciplinary and gender-based variations: A frame-based analysis of interest markers in research articles","authors":"Qian Wang , Guangwei Hu","doi":"10.1016/j.esp.2022.12.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esp.2022.12.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Linguistic expressions of interest as emotive responses are not uncommon in academic discourse but have hardly attracted any research attention. This paper reports on a study designed to examine how the deployment of such expressions in academic writing is mediated by an academic author's disciplinary background and gender. Drawing on a semantic frame developed for interest markers found in a corpus of 640 research articles sampled from four disciplines, corpus-based quantitative analyses were conducted on the incidence of the various elements of the Interest frame. Text-based interviews were also conducted with 16 disciplinary informants to explore considerations behind their use of interest markers. The corpus analyses found that although discipline and gender did not reliably predict academic authors' overall use of interest markers, they were robust predictors of several frame elements. The analyses of the interview data revealed that the observed quantitative differences were related to disciplinary knowledge-making practices, knowledge/knower epistemological orientations prevailing in the disciplines, gender-preferential discursive practices and an author's relative status in academia.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47809,"journal":{"name":"English for Specific Purposes","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49411306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A core meaning-based analysis of English semi-technical vocabulary in the medical field 基于核心意义的医学英语半专业词汇分析

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2023.01.006

Chinh Ngan Nguyen Le, Julia Miller

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Corpus-based bundle analysis to disciplinary variations: Relocating the role of bundle extraction criteria 基于语料库的学科变异束分析：重新定位束提取标准的作用

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2022.12.004

Xia Liu , Shuangling LI , Wenzhang Fan , Qimeng Dang

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A corpus-based genre analysis of promotional-informational discourse in online painting exhibition overviews 基于语料库的网络画展宣传信息话语体裁分析

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2022.11.002

Elvan Eda Işık

{"title":"A corpus-based genre analysis of promotional-informational discourse in online painting exhibition overviews","authors":"Elvan Eda Işık","doi":"10.1016/j.esp.2022.11.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esp.2022.11.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>Online painting exhibition overviews (OPEOs) on websites of art museums and galleries not only promote on-site exhibitions, but also inform and educate the public who might have a limited background in art. Embedding both informational and promotional discourses, the OPEO displays rhetorical hybridization, which sets it apart from predominantly univocal genres like art history texts or traditional </span>advertisements. In line with the global increase in the number of art venues, there is a greater demand for art professionals equipped with the written English communication skills necessary to produce OPEOs. This paper aims to identify the rhetorical moves and key lexico-grammatical features in the previously underexplored genre of OPEOs through the analysis of a 35,175- word corpus of 120 texts obtained from the websites of 20 highly reputed art museums in the UK and the US. The move analysis reveals five moves and nine steps, which can be categorized into two key discourse types: promotional and informational, according to their communicative functions. Among these, Move 2, ‘justifying the exhibition’, is highly significant as an obligatory move, and is most commonly recycled across the corpus. The study presents recommendations for ESP pedagogies in raising writers' awareness of the generic features of OPEOs.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47809,"journal":{"name":"English for Specific Purposes","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49903857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2022.11.001

Hui Wang

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