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particular thing in order to deepen the argument.
9.3. Summary
This chapter has presented my findings about the pattern A DJ PR EP N based on the second
major semantic theme identified in my data, relation. We have seen that the relations
expressed by the pattern can be divided into two types, connection and attribute, and that the
former type can be further subdivided into seven semantic groups, and the latter into six. We
identified clear disciplinary differences in the kinds of entities described in relational terms,
and it was argued that the research contents and disciplinary cultures of applied linguistics
and business studies were qualitatively distinguished through a close analysis of these patterns.
Overall, the picture that emerges from this analysis is that applied linguistics uses this pattern
to make humanistic disciplinary meanings that focus on organic and internally observable
things such as language features, peoples linguistic abilities, student levels and so on,
whereas business studies seems to use this pattern to construct a more mechanistic and
depersonalized view of the world, preferring to deal with inorganic and externally observable
things such as statistical scores, prices, institutional behaviours and processes, and so on. The
next chapter will generalize how each discipline can be delineated from these specific
findings.
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