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Citation Functions in the Opening Phase of Research Articles: A Corpus-based Comparative Study

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The substantial rise in academic citations documented over the past decades (Hyland and Jiang 2019), commensurate with an accelerating accumulation of knowledge, has testified their importance in contemporary research writing. Among various parameters related to citation practices, such as linguistic realizations of citations and citation motives, rhetorical functions of citations have been much less studied than their grammatical structure, forms and signals (most prominently being citation verbs).

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This work was supported by a grant awarded by Shanghai Municipal Education Commission and Shanghai Education Development Foundation (15CG10) and a Shanghai Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Sciences Research Grant (2017EYY007).

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    Kathy Ling Lin

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Lin, K.L., Sui, S.X. (2020). Citation Functions in the Opening Phase of Research Articles: A Corpus-based Comparative Study. In: Yang, B., Li, W. (eds) Corpus-based Approaches to Grammar, Media and Health Discourses. The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4771-3_10

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