کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
360369 620456 2011 15 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The frequency and functions of just in British academic spoken English
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی علوم انسانی و هنر زبان و زبان شناسی
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The frequency and functions of just in British academic spoken English
چکیده انگلیسی

This study investigates the frequency and functions of ‘just’ in British academic spoken English. It adopts the meanings of ‘just’ established by Lindemann and Mauranen, 2001, taken from the occurrences of ‘just’ across five speech events in the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE) to see if they also apply to occurrences of ‘just’ in the British Academic Spoken English (BASE) corpus. One fifth of the mostly monologic lecture data and one fifth of the more interactive seminar data was examined across the four disciplines of the BASE corpus. Results from corpus examples show that as in MICASE, ’just’ occurs most in academic spoken English as a minimizer or mitigator, across all four disciplinary groupings, often in metadiscursive or ‘teacher talk’ frames. Although the highest frequency of ‘just’ was in Physical Sciences, there is little difference in the function of ‘just’ among the different disciplinary groupings. There is, however, some difference between student and lecturer use of ‘just’, showing that there is a place for the teaching of ‘just’ in English for academic purposes (EAP) classes for students preparing for university study.


► Just is frequent in general & academic spoken English but few shared meanings.
► Lindemann & Mauranen (2001) MICASE meanings apply to BASE, just used mostly as a minimizer.
► Just functions similarly across 4 BASE disciplinary groupings.
► Lecturers use just in metadiscursive frames, students in unfinished ambiguous utterances.
► EAP teachers should familiarize students with how just functions in academic English.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of English for Academic Purposes - Volume 10, Issue 3, September 2011, Pages 183–197
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