A Comparative Study of Shell Nouns in the Abstracts of Chinese Master’s Theses and Research Articles by English Expert Writers
This study compares the use of shell nouns in Chinese master’s thesis abstracts and English expert research article abstracts. Based on Schmid’s (2000) definition of shell nouns and Jiang and Hyland’s (2015) functional classification, two small-scale corpora were built: a Master’s Corpus and an Expert Corpus. The findi...