Abstract
Academic English has its own register in terms of its diction, structure
and layout. This register is mandatory for writing dissertations, yet,
academic English also entails specificity of written language that is
strictly social, cultural and research bound. The current study aims to
describe the specificity of academic verbs used in the introduction
sections of PhD dissertations in the field of English studies in Pakistan.
By highlighting the use of academic verbs via frequencies and
collocations, the study has described the patterns of verbs and their
usage for writing introduction section in PhD dissertations. Thus, the
study focuses the specificity of academic verbs with the aim to facilitate
scholars and researchers in understanding the patterns of verbs and
their functions in academic writing.
Naveed-Ur-Rehman Khattak, Wasima Shehzad. (2019) A corpus based study of Specificity of Academic Verbs in Introduction sections of PhD Dissertations in English Studies in Pakistan, The Dialogue, Volume 14, Issue 1.
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