A Contrastive Study of Lexical Bundles Expressing Gratitude in Dissertation Acknowledgments Produced by Chinese and American PhD Students of Linguistics
This study compared the five-word lexical bundles (LBs) expressing gratitude in acknowledgments of dissertations written by Chinese and American PhD students of LEISURE COOKMASTER CK100G232K 100CM FULL GAS RANGE COOKER LPG CONVERTIBLE BLACK linguistics.Two corpora were built: (1) The Chinese University Dissertation Acknowledgments Collection (CUC)