Ethnic and Disciplinary Cultures and Understatement: Litotic Constructions in Polish and English Linguistics and Biology Research Articles

The present paper explores aspects of similarity and difference between the generic structure of research letters’ abstracts (henceforth RLsA) and research articles’ abstracts (henceforth RAsA). It aims at investigating and documenting the different rhetorical patterns of 19 RLsA and 19 RAsA in order to identify if there is any unique shared way to write them, determine the most publishable way of writing this genre, and detect any possibility of generic overlap between the two genres. Melliti (2016, 2017) CARL model has been adopted to identify the kind, frequency, and overlap of moves in RLsA and RAsA of the Journal Nature. The results indicate that although the RAs are longer than the RLs, the number of sentences in the RLsA is more than the RAsA. Results show also that there are fundamental as well as expendable sets of keys in both genres. The study succeeded also in identifying the number of sentences required to write a publishable research letter abstract and research article abstract in the field of biology. These findings have interesting implication on teaching academic writing and teaching English for publication purposes.

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Merging corpus linguistic and discourse analytic research goals: Discourse units in biology research articles

Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory ◽

10.1515/cllt.2005.1.2.151 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Douglas Biber ◽

James K. Jones

Keyword(s):

Research Articles ◽

Corpus Linguistic ◽

Discourse Units ◽

Biology Research

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A Cross-cultural Analysis of the Generic Structure of Business Management Research Articles: the Methods Section

ODISEA Revista de estudios ingleses ◽

10.25115/odisea.v0i8.105 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Pilar Mur Dueñas

Keyword(s):

Cultural Context ◽

Business Management ◽

Cultural Analysis ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Research Articles ◽

Management Research ◽

Disciplinary Culture ◽

Generic Structure ◽

Research Article ◽

Disciplinary Cultures

AbstractMany studies have focused on the analysis of each of the prototypical four sections of the research article (i.e. Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Swales 1990). However, whereas some sections have been subject to a great deal of analysis, especially the Introduction, others have not attracted as much scholarly attention. That is the case of the Methods section. Nevertheless, it is believed that the particular organization and content of this section plays a crucial role in the production of a successful research article. The Methods sections of 24 research articles in Business Management written in English for an international readership and in Spanish for a local audience will be contrastively analysed in terms of their rhetorical organization. When comparing the results to those from previous analyses in the fi eld of medicine, it stems that the Method sections in Business Management articles contains some specifi c steps which could be considered characteristic. Further, the results from the analysis of the comparable corpus indicate that there are certain differences in the extent of inclusion of some steps in the research articles in the two cultural contexts. It seems that both the disciplinary culture and the broad cultural context in which the research articles are written may shape and constraint the microstructure of the Methods sections.Keywords: Research article, generic structure, methods section, disciplinary cultures, intercultural rhetoric.ResumenMuchos estudios se han centrado en el análisis de las cuatro secciones prototípicas del artículo de investigación (Introducción, Métodos, Resultados y Discusión, Swales 1990). Sin embargo, mientras algunas de estas secciones han sido el foco de numerosos estudios, en particular la Introducción, otras no han recibido tanta atención. Éste es el caso de la sección de métodos. A pesar de ello, se considera que el contenido y la organización estructural de esta sección juegan un papel importante en la consecución de un artículo de investigación adecuado. Este artículo analiza la sección de Métodos de 24 artículos de investigación en el campo de la Dirección y Organización de Empresas escritos en inglés para la comunidad internacional y en castellano para una audiencia local en relación a su organización retórica. Al comparar los resultados con los obtenidos en estudios previos, se constata que la sección de Métodos de los artículos de Dirección y Organización de Empresas contiene algunos steps (o sub-secciones retóricas) que leson propios. Por otra parte, los resultados obtenidos del análisis del corpus comparable indican que existen diferencias en la inclusión de ciertos steps en los artículos en los dos contextos culturales. Parece que tanto la comunidad disciplinar como el ámbito cultural global en los que se enmarcan los artículos de investigación determinan y constriñen la micro-estructura de la sección de Métodos.Palabras clave: Artículo de investigación, estructura genérica, la sección de métodos, culturas disciplinares, retórica intercultural.

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International Research and Variation in Views of Ethnicity

Perspectives on Global Issues in Communication Sciences and Related Disorders ◽

10.1044/gics2.2.66 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 66-72

Author(s):

Ella Inglebret ◽

Amy Skinder-Meredith ◽

Shana Bailey ◽

Carla Jones ◽

Ashley France

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Classification System ◽

International Research ◽

The United States ◽

Research Articles ◽

Journal Articles ◽

Research Participants ◽

The Past ◽

International Scale ◽

Publication Patterns

The authors in this article first identify the extent to which research articles published in three American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) journals included participants, age birth to 18 years, from international backgrounds (i.e., residence outside of the United States), and go on to describe associated publication patterns over the past 12 years. These patterns then provide a context for examining variation in the conceptualization of ethnicity on an international scale. Further, the authors examine terminology and categories used by 11 countries where research participants resided. Each country uses a unique classification system. Thus, it can be expected that descriptions of the ethnic characteristics of international participants involved in research published in ASHA journal articles will widely vary.

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