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Present Participial Reduced Relative Clauses: Perspectives from English Novels and English Applied Linguistics Articles

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โครงสร้างคุณานุประโยคแบบลดรูป, การตีความเชิงวากยสัมพันธ์, การตีความเชิงอรรถศาสตร์, นวนิยาย, บทความวิจัยภาษาศาสตร์ประยุกต์

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          This current study examines present participial reduced relative clauses (PPRRC) to answer the question as to why PPRRC are unproductive in English novels and English applied linguistics articles via syntactic and semantic interpretations and pragmatic aspects. Previous studies investigated PPRRC in academic texts, writing of EFL learners and international corpora; however, this study contributes to the view of English novels and journals of English applied linguistics. The data of English novels in this study were Cranford, the Day of the Triffids, and Mrs. Dalloway. They were chosen based upon being considered as best sellers (www.amazon.com). The data of journals of English applied linguistics were derived from Journal of English for Specific Purposes as it is a high-quality academic journal as indexed in Scopus Q1. The approximate number of data collection was 300,000 words, divided into 150,000 words for each dataset. They contained 21 tokens of PPRRC, referring to sentences. The syntactic framework to study PPRRC follows Radford (2009). However, the semantic framework follows Kearns (2011). The data analysis was validated by three linguists for the sake of accuracy and reliability. The results show that 80 percent are semantically interpreted as activities in English novels. The low frequency of PPRRC in this study is explained by complexity principle. The semantic interpretations of PPRRC in this study are limited to only activity. The results of this study can be shown by learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and learners of English as a Second Language (ESL) to discover when and why PPRRC are used in English Novels.

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2023-08-29

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