A Corpus-Based Contrastive Study of Noun Phrase Complexity in Rhetorical Move Structures of Sociology Abstracts by L1 Chinese and L1 English Authors
This study compares rhetorical move structures and noun phrasal complexity patterns embedded therein in two corpora, each containing 160 sociology research article abstracts written by L1 Chinese and L1 English writers. A corpus-based comparative approach was adopted to examine move structures and noun phrasal complexi...