Genre analysis: English in academic and research settings / John M. Swales
01 Jan 1991-Vol. 1991, Iss: 1991, pp 1-99
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TL;DR: In this paper, a study of English language forecasts carried out by the author was motivated by the resistance of a group of Dutch economists to using a wide range of modals in their English language forecast.
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TL;DR: This paper analyzed a corpus of statements to identify features distinguishing statements of admitted applicants from those of rejected applicants and found that successful applicants attended more to projecting their future research endeavors and demonstrating their commitments to scientific epistemology.
Abstract: The personal statement written for graduate school admission has been a genre virtually ignored by rhetoricians but one that deserves attention. Not only a document of pragmatic importance for applicants, the personal statement is an indicator of disciplinary socialization. The discipline studied here is clinical psychology. Combining quantitative and qualitative methods, the author analyzed a corpus of statements to identify features distinguishing statements of admitted applicants from those of rejected applicants. The findings showed that successful applicants attended more to projecting their future research endeavors and demonstrating their commitments to scientific epistemology. Thus, the author argues that the modifier personal needs qualification, because successful applicants tend to emphasize their public identities as apprentice scientists.
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TL;DR: The authors examined rhetorical features of Indonesian research articles (RAs) in three disciplinary areas: Economics, Education and Psychology, written by Indonesian speakers and published mainly in university-based scientific journals.
Abstract: This thesis discusses rhetorical features of Indonesian research articles (RAs) in three disciplinary areas: Economics, Education and Psychology. These were written by Indonesian speakers and published mainly in university-based scientific journals. The main focus of this thesis is on the examination of the patterns of communicative purposes or ‘Moves’ and their subsequent elements or ‘Steps’ of the introduction sections of these articles. The analyses include the examination of communicative purposes and persuasive values of the texts, linguistic resources used to materialise the communicative purposes and persuasions, and the cultural factors (ie. norms, beliefs and values) and scientific practices and academic writing conventions underlying the specific rhetorical features. This study found that the macro rhetorical structure of the Indonesian RAs (ie. the Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion or IMRD pattern) is relatively similar to that of the English RAs except that, unlike in English RAs, the conclusion and suggestion section in the Indonesian RAs have a separate section. However, the communicative purposes and persuasions in the introduction sections in the two groups of the RAs (English and Indonesian) are relatively different. Differences are also found in the way that rhetorical works use the linguistic resources to materialise the communicative purposes and persuasions in the introduction sections of the two groups of RAs. Some of the rhetorical differences are because of the differences in the research
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TL;DR: Les As. as mentioned in this paper propose a revue des etudes sur le role de l'interaction sociale dans la construction du sens du langage, retracent l'historique de ce champ d'etudes and decrivent les traits caracteristiques des principales directions de recherche qui s'y sont developpees.
Abstract: Les As. proposent une revue des etudes sur le role de l'interaction sociale dans la construction du sens du langage. Ils retracent l'historique de ce champ d'etudes et decrivent les traits caracteristiques des principales directions de recherche qui s'y sont developpees
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26 Apr 2019
TL;DR: This paper provided a detailed accounting of the role of register in research on the historical development of language and how historical change has been mediated by register, and provided a key contributor to the development of principled historical corpora, such as the Helsinki Corpus of English Texts project.
Abstract: Merja Kyto is Professor of English Language at Uppsala University. In this article, she provides a detailed accounting of the role of register in research on the historical development of language. Her substantial body of work has focused on both the historical development of specific registers, as well as how historical change has been mediated by register. Her research has encompassed a range of time periods (from Early Modern English to the 19th century) and registers (for example, depositions, Salem witchcraft records, and dialogues). Her many edited collections have brought historical linguists together into comprehensive and rigorous volumes, including the Cambridge Handbook of English Historical Linguistics (Kyto & Pahta 2016, Cambridge University Press), English in Transition: Corpus-Based Studies in Linguistic Variation and Genre Styles (Rissanen, Kyto, & Heikkonen 1997, De Gruyter), and Developments in English: Expanding Electronic Evidence (Taavitsainen, Kyto, Claridge, & Smith 2014, Cambridge University Press). She has been a key contributor to the development of principled historical corpora, such as the Helsinki Corpus of English Texts project, which represents a range of registers from Old and Middle English to Early Modern English. Merja Kyto has long been a leader in demonstrating how systematic attention to register can result in rich profiles of historical development, and in addressing the inherent challenges involved in utilizing historical documents for linguistic research.
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