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

John M. Swales
- Vol. 1991, Iss: 1991, pp 1-99
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Between feminism and fun(ny)mism

TL;DR: This paper presented a first analysis of popular Internet humour about gender, focusing on the extent to which such humour encodes sexist, feminist, and post-feminist ideologies, finding that traditional stereotypical gender representations still prevail, along with the emergence of new post feminist portrayals.
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Generic Variations and Metadiscourse Use in the Writing of Applied Linguists: A Comparative Study and Preliminary Framework

TL;DR: The authors analyzes a relatively wide spectrum of academic texts (20 research articles, 20 handbook chapters, 20 scholarly textbook chapters, and 20 introductory textbook chapters) in applied linguistics to show the importance of establishing social relationships in academic arguments, and indicate how the social and institutional differences that underlie production and reception of different academic genres influence the ways metadiscourse is shaped in academic communication.
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Science Research Writing for Non-Native Speakers of English

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Why structure and genre matter for users of digital information: A longitudinal experiment with readers of a web-based newspaper

TL;DR: Evidence for the development of users' mental representations of structure was captured for genre-conforming and genre-violating web news page design, navigation, and story categorization.
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Rhetorical structure and persuasive language in the subgenre of online advertisements

TL;DR: The analysis of promotional texts in online advertisements of electronic products reveals that these texts typically have two main rhetorical moves: one for identifying the product and another one for describing it, and may be regarded as a specific subgenre with particular macro- and microlinguistic characteristics.