What Still Needs to be Noted: Pseudo-Clefts in the Academic Discourse of Applied Linguistics

Pseudo-clefts are the building blocks of coherent discourse progression and serve as a rhetorical toolkit to construct an authorial stance in the academic discourse. Despite an increasing interest in grammatical constructions in the academic discourse, researchers have not treated pseudo-clefts in m...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hui Zhou, Ming Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.672349/full