scholarly journals Linguistic Variation across Research Sections: A Multidimensional Analysis of Pakistani Academic Journal Articles

2017 ◽  
Vol II (I) ◽  
pp. 15-37
Author(s):  
Aniqa Rashid ◽  
Muhammad Asim Mahmood ◽  
Sajid Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Multidimensional Analysis ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Linguistic Variation ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Academic Journals ◽  
Academic Journal ◽  
Five Dimensions

This research analyzes academic journal articles in Pakistan by exploring their linguistic variations in different sections through multidimensional analysis. The analysis identifies the language of Pakistani academic journal articles. The corpus of Pakistani academic journal articles has been culled from a variety of research articles published in Pakistani academic journals. The data have been analyzed along five dimensions of Biber’s (1988) Multidimensional analysis model. The ANOVA result of Pakistani academic journal articles reveals significant differences among research sections of journal articles along Biber’s five dimensions. The finding describes the nature of Pakistani academic journal research articles as informational, impersonal, nonnarrative, elaborated, explicit, and nonpersuasive.

Logical Connectors in the Discussion Sections of Research Journal Articles

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
_ DJUWARI
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Research Writing ◽  
Academic Journals ◽  
Academic Journal ◽  
Discussion Section ◽  
Research Journal ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Logical Connectors

In research articles (RAs), the writers always express their arguments especially in discussion section. In this case, most of the writers tend to relate one idea to another to make their ideas coherent. This research article is done to investigate the logical connectors used by the writers of research articles, especially the logical connectors of three categories: logical connectors, frame markers, and Code Glosses. These linguistic devices are commonly used by the writers in academic or research articles (RAs). This is a qualitative research using the documents for analysis. These documents are taken from the research articles published in the academic journals which are collected by means of purposive sampling from the discussion sections of the RAs. The instrument used is called Taxonomy of Textual Meta-discourse. The results show that the writers have different strategies in using the logical connectors depending on which point they relate the ideas in the discussion sections. The results are expected to provide the readers with some logical connectors and some perspectives of the strategies of using logical connectors in research writing especially in the discussion sections. It is recommended that the research writers use logical connectors for making the ideas coherent.Keywords: Linguistics, logical connectors, frame markers, code glosses, Textual Metadiscourseanalysis, academic journal articles, research articles (RAs), Indonesia

scholarly journals The Future of Academic Journals in a COVID-19 World

Sci ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
Jan R. Magnus ◽  
Michael McAleer
Keyword(s):  
Time Frame ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Academic Journals ◽  
Academic Journal ◽  
The Future ◽  
Internet Publishing ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Continuous Dynamic

Many academics are critical of the current publishing system, but it is difficult to create a better alternative. This review relates to the Sciences and Social Sciences, and discusses the primary purpose of academic journals as providing a seal of approval for perceived quality, impact, significance, and importance. The key issues considered include the role of anonymous refereeing, continuous rather than discrete frequency of publications, avoidance of time wasting, and seeking adventure. Here we give recommendations about the organization of journal articles, the roles of associate editors and referees, measuring the time frame for refereeing submitted articles in days and weeks rather than months and years, encouraging open access internet publishing, emphasizing the continuity of publishing online, academic publishing as a continuous dynamic process, and how to improve research after publication. Citations and functions thereof, such as the journal impact factor and h-index, are the benchmark for evaluating the importance and impact of academic journals and published articles. Even in the very top journals, a high proportion of published articles are never cited, not even by the authors themselves. Top journal publications do not guarantee that published articles will make significant contributions, or that they will ever be highly cited. The COVID-19 world should encourage academics worldwide not only to rethink academic teaching, but also to re-evaluate key issues associated with academic journal publishing in the future.

A Review of Political Branding Research

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-29
Author(s):  
Akhmad Farhan ◽  
Azhar Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Voting Behavior ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Political ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Academic Journal ◽  
Online Databases ◽  
Political Branding ◽  
Comprehensive Listing ◽  
Research Type

Objective - This study aims to provide a comprehensive review of the political branding literature, to classify research articles according to their areas, categories and methodologies, and to identify the gaps in the literature for future research Methodology/Technique - A range of online databases was searched to provide a comprehensive listing of academic journal articles on political branding. 54 journal articles from 26 refereed journals are classified into five areas; marketing, politics, communication, economic, and linguistic. Those articles are also classified into categories; clarifying concepts, branding, campaign and advertising, voting behavior and others issues Findings - The finding shows that research on political branding has increased within the last two years. However, those researches are only conducted in certain countries, mostly in UK and USA. Finally, the finding reveals that there are many existing gaps since a political branding concept is still relatively new Novelty - This research has discovered many gaps in the political branding literature which can be used as a basis for future research Type of Paper - Conceptual Keywords: Political Branding, Marketing, Politics, Journal Articles, Literature Review

scholarly journals A Corpus-Based Lexical Study of the Frequency, Coverage and Distribution of Academic Vocabulary in Islamic Academic Research Articles

2018 ◽  
pp. 570-577
Keyword(s):  
Academic Research ◽  
Word List ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Academic Journal ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Frequency Coverage ◽  
Lexical Study

This corpus-based lexical study aimed to explore the use of words in Coxhead (2000) Academic Word List (AWL) in academic journal articles in the field of Islamic studies. Around 472,621 word corpus, called the Islamic Academic Research Articles (IARA) corpus, was created for this study. The corpus consisted of 66 research articles written in English that were published in more than 10 different Islamic academic journals. Authentic and academic research articles written on Islam, and from Islamic perspectives, covering a wide range of topics, were selected. The study found that the most frequent 317 AWL words which occurred in the IARA corpus was only 56% of Coxhead’s AWL of 570 words. This finding points to the need for a special AWL for students. Findings suggest the need to produce field-specific academic word lists incorporating all frequent academic lexical items necessary for the expression of the rhetoric of the specific research area. Findings also revealed that some of the words which were found in the present study were not found in Coxhead’s Academic Word List. This suggests that vocabulary needs of students in Islamic studies are characteristically different from those of students in other disciplines.

scholarly journals Linguistic Variations across Disciplines: A Multidimensional Analysis of Pakistani Research Articles

2019 ◽  
Vol IV (I) ◽  
pp. 23-33
Author(s):  
Aniqa Rashid ◽  
Muhammad Asim Mahmood
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Multidimensional Analysis ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Linguistic Variation ◽  
Linguistic Identity

The current research explores the linguistic identity of Pakistani Academic writing register of Research Articles. Previous quantitative works on Pakistani academic writing have been insufficient due to unrepresentative data and lack of internal and external comparison. This study discovers the language of Pakistani research articles as an academic writing register by investigating the statistically significant linguistic variation among the disciplines of Pakistani Research articles, using Biber’s (1988) five textual dimensions. The results of the study exhibit Pakistani academic research articles language as highly impersonal, non-persuasive, explicit, nonnarrative and informational.

More than discipline: uncovering multi-dimensional patterns of variation in academic research articles

Corpora ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bethany Gray
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Linguistic Variation ◽  
Academic Journal ◽  
Multiple Parameters ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Dimensions Of Variation

Research analysing linguistic variation in research articles (RAs) across academic disciplines typically employs a relatively coarse definition of RAs: any text published in an academic journal that reports on primary research. This definition assumes that articles within a single discipline which report on distinct research methodologies are similar linguistically. Yet little empirical work has investigated this assumption. This study uses multi-dimensional analysis to analyse variation in the use of seventy lexical and grammatical features in 270 research articles representing three sub-registers (theoretical, qualitative and quantitative research reports) in six disciplines (philosophy, history, applied linguistics, political science, biology and physics). The resulting dimensions of variation indicate that linguistic variation occurs along multiple parameters, not only across disciplinary lines. For example, variation also corresponds to the differing purposes and types of evidence associated with the three research paradigms. This article explores each of these complex patterns of variation to move towards a more comprehensive understanding of language use within and across disciplines, and considers the implications of these findings for future corpus-based analyses of disciplinary variation.

scholarly journals LINGUISTIC VARIATION AMONG SOUTH ASIAN ENGLISHES: A CORPUS-BASED MULTIDIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Sadia Ali ◽  
Wasima Shehzad
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
American English ◽  
World Englishes ◽  
Multidimensional Analysis ◽  
Linguistic Variation ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
British English ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
The Press ◽  
Dimension 2

Pakistani English is considered to be a distinct variety of English on the basis of its comparison with British English and American English. However, this claim is partial as its distinction from other varieties of English particularly used in South Asia has not yet been established. Thus, there is a need to investigate the similarities and differences between Pakistani and South Asian Englishes, and to analyse how far Pakistani English is distinct from other South Asian Englishes. Therefore, the present study aims at analyzing the linguistic features of Pakistani English as a separate variety from other varieties of English used in India and Bangladesh. For this purpose, a corpus of Pakistani, Indian and Bangladeshi English newspaper reportage was developed and analyzed using Biber’s (1988) multivariate/ multidimensional approach. The findings indicated that Pakistani press reportage is different from Indian and Bangladeshi press reportage on all the five dimensions, especially on Dimension 2, in which Pakistani press reportage is narrative, while Bangladeshi press reportage is non-narrative in nature. On Dimension 3, the press reportage of Pakistan is highly explicit as compared to Indian and Bangladeshi press reportage. Further, the sub-categories of Pakistani press reportage also exhibit variation when compared to the sub-categories of Indian and Bangladeshi press reportage. The possible causes of linguistic variation among these countries are their culture and geographical origin. It is further suggested that South Asian Englishes are evolving rapidly and linguistic variation among them certainly be a worth researchable area. Keywords: Multidimensional analysis, Pakistani English, press reportage, South Asian Englishes, world Englishes. Cite as: Ali, S. & Shehzad, W. (2019). Linguistic variation among South Asian Englishes: A corpus-based multidimensional analysis. Journal of Nusantara Studies, 4(1), 69-92. http://dx.doi.org/10.24200/jonus.vol4iss1pp69-92

International Research and Variation in Views of Ethnicity

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.

The Scribal Repertoire of Amennakhte Son of Ipuy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stéphane Polis
Keyword(s):  
Multidimensional Analysis ◽  
Linguistic Variation ◽  
New Kingdom ◽  
The Core ◽  
Scribal Habits

This chapter investigates linguistic variation in the texts written by the Deir el-Medina scribe Amennakhte son of Ipuy in New Kingdom Egypt (Twentieth Dynasty; c. 1150 BCE). After a discussion of the challenge posed by the identification of scribes and authors in this sociocultural setting, I provide an overview of the corpus of texts that can tentatively be linked to this individual and justify the selection that has been made for the present study. The core of this paper is then devoted to a multidimensional analysis of Amennakhte’s linguistic registers. By combining the results of this section with a description of Amennakhte’s scribal habits—both at the graphemo-morphological and constructional levels—I test the possibility of using ‘idiolectal’ features to identify the scribe (or the author) of other texts stemming from the community of Deir el-Medina and closely related to Amennakhte.

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