A Corpus-Based Study of Contrastive Adverbial Use in Academic Writing

Contrastive linking adverbials (LAs), which are connectors signifying contrast between two statements, play a crucial role in text cohesion. The present study investigated the use of eight one-word English contrastive LAs in terms of frequency and positions between advanced and intermediate Thai EFL...

The International Journal of Communication and Linguistic Studies

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