Author: Zhang Yan
Affiliation: School of Foreign Languages
Publisher: Springer
Publication Year: 2020
ISBN (Hardcover): 978-981-15-7836-6
ISBN (Softcover, Paperback): 978-981-15-7839-7
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-7837-3
The corpus-based analysis in the previous chapters has revealed features of adversative and concessive conjunctions deployed by Chinese EFL learners based on the comparisons made with their British native-speaker counterparts. However, given the limitations of the corpus-based analysis in accounting for the co-text and contextual features of the conjunctions investigated, this chapter will draw on the method of discourse analysis to explore the functions of adversative and concessive conjunctions at text level. The text-level analysis involves examining how resources of lexico-grammar are deployed to realize semantics and context. Specifically, this chapter aims to illustrate how resources of clause complexing and the system of CONJUNCTION are deployed to mark textual transitions and how they are interconnected with thematic choices and the rhetorical organization of the text written by Chinese EFL learners.
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