Multidimensional analysis of Master thesis abstracts: a diachronic perspective

This study aims to investigate the diachronic change of Master thesis abstracts written by Chinese students in the applied linguistics. A corpus of 1000 English abstracts was built with 100 abstracts per each year during a 10-year period from 2009 to 2018. Based on the multidimensional analysis, both the textual and linguistic changes were investigated. To be specific, the Biber’s (Variation across speech and writing, Cambridge University Press,...