Sponsor
Portland State University. Department of Applied Linguistics
First Advisor
Jeanette S. DeCarrico
Date of Publication
1991
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (M.A.) in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
Department
Applied Linguistics
Language
English
Subjects
English language -- Verb phrase, Technical manuals, Technical writing
DOI
10.15760/etd.6065
Physical Description
1 online resource (126 p.)
Abstract
Much recent attention has been devoted to the semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic properties of phrasal verbs--those two-part lexical items like "put on" and "tighten up", along with suggestions regarding effective methods of teaching them to non-native speakers. According to Cornell (1985), phrasal verbs, "have been 'discovered' as an important component in curricula for English as a Foreign Language" (p. 1). However, it is very possible that they have become objects of current research primarily because of their complexity: their polysemy, their idiomaticity, their syntactic restraints, a complexity that means covering phrasal verbs in an ESL/EFL course can be a time-consuming process.
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Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/24044
Recommended Citation
Brady, Brock, "The function of phrasal verbs and their lexical counterparts in technical manuals" (1991). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 4181.
https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.6065
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