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It is known that advanced second language (L2) learners need to develop their lexical and paraphrasing competences. With the aim of helping to improve these competences, didactic modules on paraphrase and lexical relations based on Meaning-Text linguistic Theory were developed and tested. These modules contain a user-friendly presentation of 40 lin...
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... Reformulation's role in semantic equivalences is one that would make for highly enlightening research. Reformulation is the process of creating utterances that are semantically comparable or nearly equivalent utilizing various language tools, such as appellation, identification, and paraphrasing (Tsedryk, 2019;Wongkittiporn, 2022). ...
This research-based article discusses appositives containing reformulation which is very important in the context of meaning particularly in the form of clarification to the anchor as the antecedent. This reformulation is viewed from the two aspects, i.e., semantic equivalence and coreference. Therefore, this research serves two aims: 1) to elucidate the forms of clarification provided by reformulation as semantic equivalence that makes anchors more comprehensible, and 2) to elaborate whether reformulation and its anchor are coreferential in the appositional constructions. The data sources are taken from English printed media within three levels of distributional coverage, i.e., national, regional and international coverage. The data are analysed through employing the method of qualitative research, that is, the method presenting descriptive data, both written and oral data. To analyse such descriptive data, the distributional method of analysis with the two techniques is used, namely, extracting techniques, and inserting techniques. The results of this research uncover that 1) the forms of clarification provided by the reformulation cover: a) metaphorical expression, b) factual knowledge, c) expression of revision, d) simplified expression, e) short forms (acronyms), f) emphasis through negative reformulation, and g) equivalence in other language; and 1) not all reformulations have coreferences. All of the reformulation forms are given to make the anchor more comprehensible.
