Semantic Denotations of Adverbial Clauses in Novels and Political News Articles and Sports New Articles
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semantic denotations, adverbial clauses, novels, political news articles, sports news articlesAbstract
This study examines semantic denotations of adverbial clauses in English novels, political news articles and sports news articles. While previous studies focused on the study of adverbial clauses in academic research, this study contributes to the view of different reading materials. The data of English novels were derived from I am sort of a loser (Smith, 2014), The Little Prince (De Saint-Exupéry, 2019), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling, 2016) and Alice in Wonderland (Carroll, 2018) in which all of them were best-selling novel in www.amazon.com. The data of political news articles were derived from Bangkok Post during January 17-30, 2022. Sports news articles in this study were derived from BBC news during January 17-30, 2022. The total number of data collection in this study is 200,000 words. 100,000 words were derived from English novels and 100,000 comes from news articles. With a total of 364 tokens, referring to sentences, English novels contains 250 tokens, but the two columns of news articles provide 114 tokens of different adverbial clauses. The data analysis of semantic denotations follows Swan (2016). To gain the data validation, three English instructors were asked to check accuracy and reliability of the data analysis. The results show that temporal adverbial clauses occur frequently in both genres. However, adverbials clauses of reasons are only outstandingly used in political news articles due to justification. It is expected that the results of this study will be beneficial for learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and learners of English as a Second Language (ESL) in terms of theoretical concepts and how to apply adverbial clauses in various text varieties.
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