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Disciplinary Variation in Syntactic Complexity: A Corpus Analysis of Professional Academic Writing
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Perez-Guerra J., Smirnova E. A.
This study deals with the analysis of syntactic complexity in professional academic writing and is based on a corpus of so-called ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ papers published in leading international journals. We aim at describing the main complexity features of academic discourse and testing the hypothesis that there is considerable disciplinary variation in linguistic complexity. We conclude that, first, clausal complexity strategies are more prevalent in the ‘hard’ sciences, while phrasal-complexity features dominate in the ‘soft’ ones. Second, the data reveal a continuum across subdisciplines within the broad categories of ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ genres with respect to the adoption of complexity strategies.
Keywords: academic writingcorpus analysisacademic discoursesyntactic complexitydisciplinary variation
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