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Genre analysis: English in academic and research settings / John M. Swales

01 Jan 1991-Vol. 1991, Iss: 1991, pp 1-99
About: The article was published on 1991-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 5640 citations till now.
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04 Jan 2006
TL;DR: To identify rules and conventions established by the genre community, a sample of 358 product reviews was examined using a methodology that combines elements of case study research, corpus linguistics, and textual analysis.
Abstract: Consumer opinion Web sites enable consumers to post reviews of products and services or view the experiences of other consumers. This form of writing can be considered a truly digital genre, as consumers were not able to share their opinions with other consumers in a structured, written format before the advent of the Internet. To identify rules and conventions established by the genre community, a sample of 358 product reviews was examined using a methodology that combines elements of case study research, corpus linguistics, and textual analysis. More precisely, the analysis focused on structure, content, audience appeals, sentence style, and word choice. The results of this analysis have implications for improving the design of consumer opinion Web sites with a view to making them more useful sources of consumer knowledge.

85 citations

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TL;DR: The authors analyzed the nature of research papers from two disciplinary graduate courses, in order to increase our understanding of this heterogeneous genre and the dimensions along which it can vary across sub-disciplines.

85 citations

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TL;DR: It is argued that replicable research must be grounded upon operational definitions in statistical terms, and four different corpus-analytic measures are applied, variously based upon n-gram frequency, association, association and phrase-frames, to samples of first and second language writing.
Abstract: Formulaic sequences are recognised as having important roles in language acquisition, processing, fluency, idiomaticity, and instruction. But there is little agreement over their definition and measurement, or on methods of corpus comparison. We argue that replicable research must be grounded upon operational definitions in statistical terms. We adopt an experimental design and apply four different corpus-analytic measures, variously based upon n-gram frequency (Frequency-grams), association (MI-grams), phrase-frames (P-frames), and native norm (items in the Academic Formulas List – AFL-grams), to samples of first and second language writing in order to examine and compare knowledge of formulas in first and second language acquisition as a function of proficiency and language background. We find that these different operationalizations produce different patterns of effect of expertise and L1/L2 status. We consider the implications for corpus design and methods of analysis.

85 citations

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01 Dec 1998-System
TL;DR: If corpus linguistics is to develop further its “applied” aspect and potential for exploitation, specialised corpora need to be exploited at a more textlinguistic level than at present to mirror the advances in more theoretical corpus research.

85 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the adverbial is analysed from three general vantage points: its position or function as hedge or booster, the way it intervenes and/or gets caught up in the overall "meta-textual" strategy, and how it gets involved in the meta-pragmatic strategy.

84 citations