Syntactic Interpretations of Reduced Adverbial Clauses in Applied Linguistics Research Articles and Novels
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This study examines the syntactic interpretations of reduced adverbial clauses in applied linguistics research articles and novels. While previous research studies focusing on reduced adverbial clauses selected the materials of cookbooks and newspapers, this current study contributes to the field by using applied linguistics research articles and novels. The sources of data in this study are applied linguistics research articles, including the Journal of English for Academic Purposes, the Journal of English for Specific Purposes, the LEARN Journal, and the PASSA Journal, due to their indexation in the SCOPUS Q1 and the Scopus Q2. 20 applied linguistics research articles, divided into 5 articles each, were collected to be studied. The dataset of novels was gathered from Peter Pan (Barrie, 2022), The Secret Garden (Burnett, 2021), and The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (Doyle, 2022) due to their best sellers (www.amazon.com). A total of approximately 400,000 words was divided into approximately 200,000 words for each dataset. Both datasets contain 50 tokens, referring to sentences. 37 tokens were founded in applied linguistics research articles, whereas 13 tokens were discovered in novels. The data analysis in this study follows Swan (2016). The data analysis was ensured reliability and validity via checking by three experts whose English is their mother tongue. The results of this study show that the syntactic interpretations of verbless adverbial phrases in applied linguistics research articles occur the most at 67.57 percent. On the other hand, the absolute adverbial phrases in novels occur the most at 53.84 percent. This could be explained by the principles of formality and the least effort requirement. It is expected that this present research paper will be beneficial for learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in order to apply the syntactic interpretations of reduced adverbial clauses in applied linguistics research articles and novels accurately and appropriately.
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