Hypes in undergraduate thesis abstracts by Indonesian students across years
Cita Nuary Ishak,
Yazid Basthomi,
Nurenzia Yannuar
Abstract:Previous studies showed that as a result of intense competition to succeed in academic pursuits such as publishing research papers and securing grants, promotional language known as hypes are pervasive in academic texts. This paper investigates hypes in a corpus of undergraduate thesis abstracts written by Indonesian English learners in a span of ten years, from 2011 to 2020. Taking a corpus-based approach, it examines the extent to which hypes are used in the thesis abstracts, including their linguistic manif… Show more
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