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Exploring interdisciplinary boundaries: A BERTopic modeling approach to analyze four interdisciplinary fields at the abstract and sentence levels 探索跨学科边界：BERTopic建模方法在抽象和句子层面分析四个跨学科领域

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2025.09.002

Yagang Chen, Jiajin Xu

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Multimodal approach to translanguaging practices: From translanguaging to trans-semiotising in an EMI business course 跨语言实践的多模态方法：在EMI商业课程中从跨语言到跨符号化

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2025.06.003

Nuria Escobar-Lluch, Noelia Ruiz-Madrid

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Climate discourses of petroleum corporations in China and the United States: A comparative stakeholder analysis 中美石油企业的气候话语：利益相关者比较分析

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2025.06.001

Jieyun Feng , Wenze Lu , Ming Liu , Wenqing Yu

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Identity construction in corporate leaders’ messages: A corpus-based cross-linguacultural study of self-mention 企业领导人信息中的身份建构：基于语料库的自我提及跨语言研究

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2025.08.001

Minh Hieu Nguyen

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Frame-based semantic patterns in business discourse: A case study 商业话语中基于框架的语义模式：一个案例研究

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2025.08.002

Yubin Qian , Hans C. Boas , Qun Zheng

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Stance taking through that-clauses in research article abstracts: Cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary practices in translated and non-translated English 通过研究论文摘要that从句的立场：翻译和非翻译英语中的跨文化和跨学科实践

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2025.05.007

Yueyue Huang (黄越悦) , Hao Yin (殷昊) , Dechao Li (李德超)

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“Long-term effects of Covid-19 are poorly understood”: Attitude in medical journal abstracts and highlights “对Covid-19的长期影响知之甚少”：医学期刊摘要和重点报道中的态度

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2025.06.002

Hang (Joanna) Zou , Ken Hyland

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Academic formulas in TED talks and TED-Ed animations: Insights for academic vocabulary learning TED演讲和TED动画中的学术公式：对学术词汇学习的见解

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2025.05.009

Chen-Yu Liu

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When reviewers negate and authors navigate: Negation in peer review comments and author responses 当审稿人否定和作者导航时：同行评审评论和作者回复中的否定

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English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2025.05.008

Yue Yuan , Luda Liu , Feng (Kevin) Jiang

{"title":"When reviewers negate and authors navigate: Negation in peer review comments and author responses","authors":"Yue Yuan , Luda Liu , Feng (Kevin) Jiang","doi":"10.1016/j.esp.2025.05.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.esp.2025.05.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explores how negation features in peer review discourse, examining patterns of its occurrence in the rhetorical exchanges between reviewers and authors. Drawing on a corpus of reviewer comments and corresponding author responses from 50 research articles published in the <em>British Medical Journal</em>, we adopt a discourse-informed approach that examines the co-textual environments in which negation appears, rather than attributing interpersonal functions to negation itself. We identify six rhetorical alignments (comparison, addition, refutation, hedging, boosting, and affect) based on how negation co-occurs with discourse features that organise information or express stance. Our findings reveal that while reviewers primarily use negation to deliver critical evaluation and assert authority, authors use it to defend research choices and manage disagreement through hedging and contrast. Exemplar exchanges illustrate how both parties negotiate critique while maintaining collegiality. The study contributes to English for Specific Purposes by addressing a practical need that novice researchers and postgraduate students often struggle to interpret reviewer feedback and write response letters. By examining the rhetorical deployment of negation, we offer insights into the interactional dimensions of peer review and provide pedagogical implications for teaching critique and rebuttal strategies in academic writing instruction.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47809,"journal":{"name":"English for Specific Purposes","volume":"80 ","pages":"Pages 31-43"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144321304","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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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 : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2025.04.003

Xiaoyan Wang , Ting Zeng , Ju Wen

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