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Sentence-initial and and but in editorial writing: A comparison across Korean and American English newspapers
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Lewis, Sarah | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-04-14T07:54:12Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2016-04-14T07:54:12Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2015-12 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | SNU Working Papers in English Linguistics and Language, Vol.13, pp. 105-124 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10371/96072 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Despite proscription against the use of and and but in sentence-initial position, studies have found special functions of these words in written discourse. This study aims to investigate the functions and patterns of occurrence of sentence-initial and (SIA) and sentence-initial but (SIB) in editorial writings written by native English writers and advanced Korean English writers. Over 100,000 words of writings, a total of 421 editorials written between years 2014 and 2015, are separated by the native language of the writer and cross-analyzed. Editorial discourse prefers the function of SIA and SIB in the order of (i) indicating a discontinuity or shift with a previous discourse unit; (ii) indicating the development of an argument; and (iii) marking off a discourse unit by indicating the last item (or potential last-items) on a list. Though the pattern of preference in function was similar between natives and non-natives, non-native writers appear to be much more conservative in frequency of using the words under examination | - |
dc.language.iso | en | - |
dc.publisher | Department of English Language and Literature, Seoul National University | - |
dc.subject | Editorials | - |
dc.subject | sentence-initial-and | - |
dc.subject | sentence-initial-but | - |
dc.subject | Additive connectives | - |
dc.subject | conjunctive adverbials | - |
dc.subject | text analysis | - |
dc.title | Sentence-initial and and but in editorial writing: A comparison across Korean and American English newspapers | - |
dc.type | SNU Journal | - |
dc.citation.journaltitle | SNU Working Papers in English Linguistics and Language | - |
dc.citation.endpage | 124 | - |
dc.citation.pages | 105-124 | - |
dc.citation.startpage | 105 | - |
dc.citation.volume | 13 | - |
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