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Xue Wu is an academic researcher from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: English as a lingua franca & Computer science. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 4 publications.
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Syntactic complexity in English as a lingua franca academic writing
Xue Wu,Anna Mauranen,Lei Lei +2 more
TL;DR: This article studied how ELF users express meaning relations in research articles using different syntactic structures and found that ELF authors use longer sentences to improve communication efficiency and more coordinate phrases and complex nominals to enhance clarity and to increase explicitness.
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Motivation in second language acquisition: A bibliometric analysis between 2000 and 2021
TL;DR: In this article , three types of bibliometric analyses (i.e., co-citation analysis, citation analysis, and keyword analysis) were performed to identify the prominent scholarly documents, authors, venues of publications, and research topics that have been highly influential in the research of motivation in SLA between 2000 and 2021.
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Corpora and Discourse Studies: Integrating Discourse and Corpora*
TL;DR: This paper presented a methodological integration of discourse analysis and corpus linguistics, which aims to provide its readers with contemporary perspectives on "methodological synergy" (Bakkoupis et al., 2013).
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A corpus-based analysis of the concessive construction just because X doesn’t mean Y
TL;DR: This article investigated syntactic and semantic features of the English concessive construction just because X doesn't mean Y (JB-X DM-Y) grounded in Goldberg's theory of construction grammar.
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Pragmatic force modifiers in ELF academic discussions
TL;DR: The authors investigated the use of pragmatic force modifiers (PFMs) in English as a lingua franca (ELF) use in academic discussions and found that PFMs are used to fulfill appropriate functions in different event types under the genre of academic discussions, such as flagging suggestions and downplaying criticism in conference discussions, marking elicitation and tailoring explanation in lecture discussions, expressing commitment and certainty in doctoral defense discussions, and projecting personal opinions in seminar discussions.
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