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Autor/in | Pupipat, Apisak |
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Titel | Should a Book Be Judged by Its Back Cover? Some Written/Formal Features as Observed in Happily-Ever-After Women's Novel Blurbs |
Quelle | In: LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 16 (2023) 1, S.604-630 (27 Seiten)
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 2630-0672 |
Schlagwörter | Females; Novels; Form Classes (Languages); Phrase Structure; Language Variation; Fiction; Marketing; Language Usage; Discourse Analysis; Information Sources; Syntax; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Teaching Methods; Computational Linguistics; Written Language; Morphemes; Language Styles Weibliches Geschlecht; Novel; Roman; Analytischer Sprachbau; Phrasenstruktur; Sprachenvielfalt; Fiktion; Sprachgebrauch; Diskursanalyse; Information source; Informationsquelle; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Geschriebene Sprache; Morphem; Sprachstil |
Abstract | This study examined written/formal register based on happilyever-after women's fiction conventional blurbs. In particular, the 80 blurbs were equally divided into two types: the classic and mass-marketed. Biber et al. (2021) was used as the framework to extract features to respond to the two research questions: What were the top written/formal features among the classic and mass-marketed happily-ever-after women's novel blurbs? And, which blurb type displayed more resemblance to written/formal register? The functional framework comprised three main groups of features: The passives, adjectivals and adverbials. Results revealed that the first two showed a strong tendency towards written/formal register while the last seemed to show the opposite but was taken here to be in-between features, corresponding to fiction language. The top written/formal features based on the two types of blurbs were the passives (both the full and reduced forms) (26%), full relative clauses (23%), full adverbial clauses (20%) and attributives (13%). The blurb type that seemed inclined towards written/formal nature more was the classic, as substantiated by five salient features: the passives, attributives, -en adjectivals, -ing adverbials and -en adverbials. It is believed that discourse analysts and ESL/EFL teachers can pay more attention to these useful syntactic features, particularly the full and reduced forms, as ways to compress information in formal writing. (As Provided). |
Anmerkungen | Language Institute of Thammasat University. The Prachan Campus, 2 Prachan Road, Bangkok 10200 Thailand. e-mail: learnjournal@gmail.com; Web site: https://www.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/learn |
Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
Update | 2024/1/01 |