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The case of English for aviation maintenance: A multi-dimensional analysis of commercial aircraft manuals 航空维修英语案例：商用飞机手册的多维分析

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2025-05-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2025.04.004

Amber Wanwen Wang, Eric Friginal

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Do-it-yourself corpora and discipline-specific writing: A focus on the benefits of corpus building and cleaning (in the age of large language models) diy语料库和特定学科的写作：关注语料库构建和清理的好处（在大型语言模型的时代）

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2025-05-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2025.04.002

Maya Sfeir

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Stance and engagement in OASIS and scientific abstracts: A comparative study OASIS与科学摘要的立场与参与：比较研究

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2025-05-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2025.04.003

Xiaoyan Wang , Ting Zeng , Ju Wen

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‘Could you send us your latest catalogue?’: A local grammar of requesting in English business letters 您能把最新的产品目录寄给我们吗？英语商务信函中的本地请求语法

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2025-04-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2025.04.001

Lei Zhang , Fuzhi Tong

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The value of interactional metadiscourse in university level writing: Differences between high and low performing undergraduate business students 互动元语篇在大学写作中的价值：高、低成绩商科学生的差异

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2025-04-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2025.03.002

Randy Appel , Ruth McKay

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Rhetorical distinctions: Comparing metadiscourse in essays by ChatGPT and students 修辞学上的区别：学生与ChatGPT作文中的元话语比较

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2025.03.001

Feng (Kevin) Jiang , Ken Hyland

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A cross-disciplinary study of value arguments in doctoral theses submitted to universities in Hong Kong 香港大学博士论文价值论证的跨学科研究

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2025-03-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2025.02.002

Guangwei Hu, Emmanuel Mensah Bonsu

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2025-02-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2025.02.001

John M. Swales

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Ideational interplay of textual and visual elements in graphical abstracts of biology research articles 生物学研究文章图形摘要中文本和视觉元素的概念相互作用

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2025-01-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2025.01.002

Junqiang Ren , Jiajin Xu

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Meeting the needs of EAP students in Canadian colleges: Insights from a needs analysis study 满足加拿大大学EAP学生的需求：来自需求分析研究的见解

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2025-01-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2025.01.001

Valerie Smith , Sheila Windle , Leanne Johnny

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