It was found that in the soft discipline, both lexical and syntactic pragmatic distance strategies are used much more than those used in hard discipline. Between the two main categories of strategies, in both disciplines, lexical strategies are much more frequently than syntactic ones. The study gives people a general idea on pragmatic distance in academic papers of two disciplines which can help people have a better way to understand academic papers in terms of pragmatic distance strategies employed in them. It also shows a new research angle on academic papers which will supply some information for further studies.
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