The Language of Explanations

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• This paper examines how explanations are constructed specifically in written texts. Explanations are common in academic and technical discourse and their purpose is to explain some process or mechanism by which a phenomenon occurs. This paper explores some of the English lexico-grammatical resources that enable us to give and understand explanations. Since the function of language in an explanation is to construct an implication sequence, which represents a sequence of events that are logically and temporally related to each other, the paper explores resources used to create logical relations in texts. Moreover, the paper explores the use of nominalization in written explanations in order to construct events as things, which allows them to participate in other events and to be repeatedly referred to in a text. It is argued that teaching needs to be informed by descriptions of grammar that accurately reflect authentic language and show how grammar is a resource for creating and exchanging meanings.

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著者

• 徳永 アン

  大阪府立大学総合教育研究機構

• 徳永 昌彦

  大阪府立大学総合教育研究機構

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