Subjuncts in senior high school (SHS) academic writing: A corpus-based study
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2022
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Abstract
The implementation of the English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses reflects the magnitude of the learners’ need to hone their skills in respect of the linguistic, cultural, and academic nature of English for higher disciplinary undertakings. Specifically, academic writing has been arduous and closely focused due to its stern objective and consequential characteristics. In view of this, the present research attempts to investigate the collocations, semantic, and syntactic features of a specific linguistic component in academic writing, particularly the adverbials. Quirk et al. (1985) defined adverbials as non-obligatory linguistic components in the sentence, but it has an exceedingly complex semantic taxonomy and direct context impact. The present research investigates subjunct adverbial categories which are used as emphasizers, intensifiers, and focusing subjuncts. The call to deeply understand subjuncts is based on the notion that the meaning can extensively realign or influence not only the context, but also the organizational and logical dimensions of the sentence. Furthermore, previous English adverbial studies in the Philippines are only limited to disjuncts, emphasizers, sentence-initial adjuncts, and a few subjunct items investigated through corpus linguistics and content analysis; hence, a bigger scope of adverbial subjunct study is highly demanded (Alonzo & Dita, 2019; Caparas, 2017; Dita, 2011; Hernandez, 2017; Martin, 2004; Yao & Collins, 2017). The detachment with adverbial studies is due to the stereotypical notion that these items are not of equal importance compared with the other sentence components (e.g., nouns, verbs, adjectives). Hypothetically, the semantic features may in fact also reflect the cultural dimension of the writer’s preference in general. Hence, the present research aims to clearly describe not only the obscurity of its utilization in academic writing, specifically in the genre of research, but also the possible adverbialization or grammaticalization in the context of using Philippine English. The comprehensive study utilized a 1.4-million-word corpus of Senior High School (SHS) research in both academic and technical-vocational strands. A total of 8,222 occurrences of 99 specific subjuncts items are studied based on the theoretical framework of Quirk et al. (1985) adverbial nomenclature and previous adverbial studies (Desagulier, 2017; Ernst, 2020; Gisova, 2014; Liu & Espino, 2018; Lyons, 1990; Maschler & Estlein, 2008; Vandenvergen & Aijmer, 2007). The present research investigates the subjuncts’ frequency, semantic, and syntactic features. First, the frequency of occurrences of the adverbial subjuncts are studied in the SHS academic writing and reported through text normalization or density per 1,000 words. Second, subjuncts
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| Authors | Alonzo, Alvin C. |
| Journal | Malay Journal |
| Year | 2022 |
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