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Lista de candidatos sometidos a examen:
1) elaboration (*)
(*) Términos presentes en el nuestro glosario de lingüística

1) Candidate: elaboration


Is in goldstandard

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paper corpusSignosTxtLongLines577 - : In their article “Challenging stereotypes about academic writing: Complexity, elaboration, explicitness”, ^[75]Biber and Gray (2010: 2 ) contest the stereotypical view of academic writing in English as “grammatically complex, with elaborated structures, and with meaning relations expressed explicitly”. They propose the view of formal academic English writing as structurally compressed, with a recurring use of phrasal (non-clausal) modifiers embedded in noun phrases. These linguistic features make the expression of contents concise and meanings less explicit and informationally dense (^[76]Biber, Johansson, Leech, Conrad & Finegan, 1999). Leech, Hundt, Mair and Smith (^[77]2009: 245) also refer to densification as a defining characteristic of registers that oppose colloquialisation (i.e. registers that exhibit spoken grammar features). Biber and Gray (^[78]2016: 326) point out that greater reliance on phrasal rather than clausal patterns/structures (characteristic of formal academic writing in

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paper corpusSignosTxtLongLines577 - : VPs with copula be are generally followed by an embedded to-infinitive complement clause. Often, these clauses contain further clausal embedding, thus reflecting structural elaboration at the level of grammar:

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paper corpusSignosTxtLongLines600 - : On the contrary, the way researchers make use of the rest of the pragmatic functions is discipline and/or section sensitive. In the introductory parts, the explanation of procedures, the statement of results and the elaboration of arguments are three functions which researchers deploy with different frequencies from a statistical point of view. In the post-method sections, the explanation of procedures, the elaboration of arguments, the expression of limitations, contribution or applications and the signalling of future avenues for work, are enacted with varying different, and statistically significant frequencies, in the three disciplines analysed, as corroborated by the p values in the table below:

Evaluando al candidato elaboration:


2) academic: 4
3) biber: 3

elaboration
Lengua: eng
Frec: 35
Docs: 18
Nombre propio: / 35 = 0%
Coocurrencias con glosario:
Puntaje: 0.648 = ( + (1+3) / (1+5.16992500144231)));
Candidato aceptado

Referencias bibliográficas encontradas sobre cada término

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elaboration
: Biber, D. & Gray, B. (2010). Challenging stereotypes about academic writing: Complexity, elaboration and explicitness. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 9(1), 2-20. [197]https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2010.01.001
: Burgoon, J. & Hale, J. (1988). Nonverbal expectancy violations: Model elaboration and application to immediacy behaviors. Communication Monographs, 55, 58-79.
: Reder, L.M. (1980) The role of elaboration in the comprehension and retention of prose: A critical review. Review of Educational Research, 50, 5-53.
: Ukrainetz, T. & Gillam, R. (2009). The expressive elaboration of imaginative Narratives by children with Specific Language Impairment. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 52, 883-898.