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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: The discourse-level structure of natural language texts: An exploratory study of empirical abstracts Abstract: Discourse linguistics theory suggests that natural language texts communicate in part due to the predictable structure they exhibit. In an exploratory study, two research questions were investigated: (1) Do informative abstracts reporting on empirical work possess a discourse-level structure? (2) Are there lexical clues in empirical abstracts which reveal this discourse-level structure? The first question was addressed by means of four tasks, employing techniques used in cognitive psychology research, to delineate the structure of empirical abstracts based on the internalized notions of twelve professional abstractors. Research Question 2 employed a discourse linguistic approach in the analysis of a sample of 276 empirical abstracts from ERIC and PsycINFO. Based on the results of these investigations, a linguistic model of an empirical abstract was constructed and tested in a two stage validation procedure using sixty-eight abstracts and four abstractors. |
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Students under Elizabeth DuRoss Liddy
ADVISEES:
- Corinne Jorgensen - Syracuse University (1996)
- Jiangping Chen - Syracuse University (2003)
- Anne Diekema - Syracuse University (2003)
- Jeffrey Pomerantz - Syracuse University (2003)
- Victoria L. Rubin - Syracuse University (2006)
- Svetlana Symonenko - Syracuse University (2007)
- Mary E. McKenna - Syracuse University (2008)
- Christina M Finneran - Syracuse University (2010)
- Jaime Snyder - Syracuse University (2012)
- Keisuke Inoue - Syracuse University (2013)
COMMITTEESHIPS:
- Ann Bishop - Syracuse University (1995)
- Michael Lawrence McHale - Syracuse University (1995)
- Joanne Silverstein - Syracuse University (1998)
- Claire Urfels - Syracuse University (2000)
- Silvia Barcellos Southwick - Syracuse University (2001)
- Charmaine Barreto - Syracuse University (2003)
- Jahna Clare Otterbacher - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2006)
- Ozgur Yilmazel - Syracuse University (2006)
- Edgar Dale Thompson - Syracuse University (2008)