16966

16966

A Cross Linguistic, Cross Disciplinary Study of Rhetorical Moves in Research Article Abstracts

كارشناسي ارشد

Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL

شهريور 1394

Esmaeel Abdollahzadeh, PhD

Akram Nayernia, PhD

زبان

1396/01/15

1/1/1900 12:00:00 AM

Abstract Academic writing has been the focus of attention in the last two decades. And as the research article abstracts play a crucial role in the academic milieu, this genre has been studied by many scholars. However, not much attention has been paid to studies that not only consider cross-cultural an​d cross-disciplinary differences but also take the influence of research article design into consideration. The purpose of this study is to shed light on how cross-disciplinary/cross-cultural differences an​d research article designs can manipulate research article rhetorical moves an​d their linguistic/textual realization. Therefore, 300 research article abstracts are studied based on the cross-cultural/cross-disciplinary differences in the way that they exploited research article abstracts rhetorical moves an​d their linguistic/textual realization on one hand; an​d 300 research article abstracts rhetorical moves are studied based on influence of their research article design, on the other hand. The findings prove the existence of rhetorical moves an​d their linguistic/textual realization differences due to the cross-cultural/ cross-disciplinary differences an​d also the research article design. There would be functional generic, pedagogical implications for this study along with benefits for ESP/EAP courses. Finally, it would be worthwhile if studies in larger scale be conducted on this issue.