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monogloss heterogloss
ALC 35%(7) 65%(13)
BC 0% 100%(15)
Table 8.11. Proportion of monogloss and heterogloss
As further illustration, consider the following expanded examples from the concordance data:
[confident about N]
Classroom discussion revealed that although many students felt more confident about dealing
with authentic text, some of the more vocal were still keen to declare that their interests were
(ALC: ESP2006_19)
To be more confident about this conclusion, we carried out a combined analysis of
Experiments 7 and 8. (ALC: Cognitive2006_8)
To be confident about whether there is an effect of global structure repetition on syntactic
priming, it is necessary to directly compare the same participants performance in both the
same- and different-structure conditions. (ALC: Cognitive2006_8)
[optimistic about N]
We remain optimistic about the contribution of neuropsychology to the understanding of
semantic structure, (ALC: Cognitive2005_9)
But I also hope they will nevertheless be optimistic about the ideas set out for planning at the
end of this article. (ALC: TESOL2005_1)
Writers in applied linguistics tend to express (or make efforts to gain) feelings of confidence
about ideas, abilities, solutions, activities, skills and research consequences. This is also
manifested in the fact that these LSPs often co-occur with amplifiers (e.g. quite, increasingly),
a comparative more (esp. over 50 %), or other language markers highlighting feelings of
optimism (e.g. remain, hope and nevertheless).
In contrast, writers in business studies tend to take a more cautious stance and
express skeptical attitudes, views or expectations. Let us consider the concordances of the
LSP optimistic about N from BC:
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