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 linguistics.Two corpora were built: (1) The Chinese University Dissertation Acknowledgments Collection here (CUC) which contained 700 acknowledgments with a total of 300,686 tokens, and (2)

BACKGROUND:Foot and ankle joint disorders are serious issues for patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).We compared the differences between patients with RA whose first symptom involved a foot or ankle joint (FOOT group) versus other joints (non-FOOT group) within the Institute of Rheumatology, Rheumatoid Arthritis (IORRA) cohort in our institute.