Table 1 Descriptive information on the corpus.

From: Metadiscourse in the research abstracts of an interdisciplinary field: a case study of computational linguistics

 

Applied linguistics (AL)

Computational linguistics (CL)

Computer science (CS)

No. of RA abstracts

90

90

90

No. of journals from which abstracts were taken

3

3

3

No. of RA abstracts taken from each journal

30

30

30

Total number of words of RA abstracts

16395

17701

18090