Rhetorical Structure and Lexical Choices of Thailand Travel Listicles
Abstract
This paper reports on the results of a move analysis and lexical choices of Thailand travel listicles. First, five travel listicles were selected as a corpus for analyzing in this study. Then, the format of the all collected travel listicles as well as their content were categorized into moves and step. Finally, the lexical choices analysis was conducted to find the formality, specific and general words, and transliterated words. Based on the findings of the analysis, the travel listicles consist of 22 moves and nine are found to be compulsory and are reported in this paper. The results of this study are expected to reveal the organizational structures (moves and steps) of Thailand travel listicles, and lexical choices which can be a useful tool for professional writers when they have to write travel listicles.
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