Abstract : Scholars have investigated how authors structure their messages according to their communicative purposes and their intended audience . This article examines whether English research article (RAs) and popularized texts (PTs) as representations of two different communication purposes and target audience utilize distinct lexicogrammatical features . The corpus comprised English research articles and science popularized texts in psychology . We examined the distribution of lexicogrammatical features indicating interpersonal and social relationships .
The findings indicate that the distributio of linguistic features is different across these two cgenres . The findings promise implications for writers of online psychology texts and call for further research on psychology texts .
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