What Should Go With This Word Here: Connecting Lexical Collocations and Rhetorical Moves in Narrative Stories-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

What Should Go With This Word Here: Connecting Lexical Collocations and Rhetorical Moves in Narrative Stories

Published:2024-01-25 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:0142-6001
Container-title:Applied Linguistics
language:en
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Author:

Jiang Yishi¹,Lu Xiaofei²^ORCID,Liu Fengkai³,Zhang Jianxin⁴,Jin Tan⁵^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University , Shanghai , China

2. Department of Applied Linguistics, The Pennsylvania State University , University Park, PA , USA

3. Department of Linguistics and Translation, City University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong , China

4. School of International Studies, University of International Business and Economics , Beijing , China

5. School of Foreign Studies, South China Normal University , Guangzhou, Guangdong , China

Abstract

Abstract An emerging body of corpus-based genre analysis studies has examined the connection between different types of formulaic language and rhetorical moves in various genres of academic writing. The current study extends this body of research into the understudied genre of narrative stories and the understudied phraseological unit of lexical collocations. Specifically, we compiled a corpus of narrative stories written by expert writers, extracted a list of frequent collocations from the corpus, developed a rhetorical move framework for narrative stories, examined the distribution of rhetorical stages and moves in the corpus, and explored the connection between collocations and rhetorical moves in the corpus. The findings of our research culminated in an online interface for searching the corpus for collocations and exploring their use in sentences realizing different rhetorical stages and moves in context. We discuss the potential pedagogical value of our findings and the resulting online interface for promoting learner awareness of the connection between linguistic features and rhetorical functions in narrative stories in genre-based pedagogy.

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Link

https://academic.oup.com/applij/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/applin/amae001/56421374/amae001.pdf

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