To the Editor:Acute lobar nephronia(ALN),also known as acute focal bacterial nephritis,is a severe form of upper urinary tract infection(UTI)that is characterized by the presence of an inflammatory mass lesion in the ...To the Editor:Acute lobar nephronia(ALN),also known as acute focal bacterial nephritis,is a severe form of upper urinary tract infection(UTI)that is characterized by the presence of an inflammatory mass lesion in the kidney without abscess formation.It is considered to be the midpoint between acute pyelonephritis and renal abscess.^([1])ALN was first described in 1979 as a radiologic diagnosis in ten adults and two children.^([2])展开更多
Metadiscourse is a significant method in revealing audience awareness,but related studies have been confined to linguistic markers and current writing analyses.This essay aims to enrich metadiscourse engagement in par...Metadiscourse is a significant method in revealing audience awareness,but related studies have been confined to linguistic markers and current writing analyses.This essay aims to enrich metadiscourse engagement in particular with certain rhetorical figures and to investigate audience awareness in a highly acclaimed Roman-era Greek classic:Longinus'On the Sublime.Drawing from a refined framework of engagement,we find explicit evidence of audience aware-ness as manifested in the author's use of engagement markers.We have sorted these markers into four types,including reader mentions(apostrophe and pro-nouns),directives(modal verbs and imperatives),questions(erotema and rogatio),and appeals to shared knowledge(emphasizers and comment clauses).We sug-gest that the frequent use of these engagement markers,in particular reader mentions,could be taken as evidence of the author's strong audience awareness and the cueing effect in facilitating perception.This integration of rhetorical fig-ures into the metadiscourse engagement markers contributes to the audience awareness analysis in a more explicit and comprehensive way.展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.82070770)the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province(No.2020A1515010674)+2 种基金the Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangzhou(No.201803010109)the President Funding of Nanfang Hospital(Nos.2018B009 and 2018C003)the College Students’Innovative Entrepreneurial Training Plan Program(Nos.X202012121239,202012121046)。
文摘To the Editor:Acute lobar nephronia(ALN),also known as acute focal bacterial nephritis,is a severe form of upper urinary tract infection(UTI)that is characterized by the presence of an inflammatory mass lesion in the kidney without abscess formation.It is considered to be the midpoint between acute pyelonephritis and renal abscess.^([1])ALN was first described in 1979 as a radiologic diagnosis in ten adults and two children.^([2])
文摘Metadiscourse is a significant method in revealing audience awareness,but related studies have been confined to linguistic markers and current writing analyses.This essay aims to enrich metadiscourse engagement in particular with certain rhetorical figures and to investigate audience awareness in a highly acclaimed Roman-era Greek classic:Longinus'On the Sublime.Drawing from a refined framework of engagement,we find explicit evidence of audience aware-ness as manifested in the author's use of engagement markers.We have sorted these markers into four types,including reader mentions(apostrophe and pro-nouns),directives(modal verbs and imperatives),questions(erotema and rogatio),and appeals to shared knowledge(emphasizers and comment clauses).We sug-gest that the frequent use of these engagement markers,in particular reader mentions,could be taken as evidence of the author's strong audience awareness and the cueing effect in facilitating perception.This integration of rhetorical fig-ures into the metadiscourse engagement markers contributes to the audience awareness analysis in a more explicit and comprehensive way.
