The study of authorial voice: using a Spanish–English corpus to explore linguistic transference

The widespread use of English as the language for the dissemination of scientific knowledge is placing increasing demands on non-native scholars to use English as their language of research and publication. This can result in non-native scholars experiencing difficulties in drafting papers that are linguistically and rhetorically appropriate. This study 2 2 This research has been carried out within the framework of the research group InterLAE ( www.interlae.com ), and was given financial support by the Spanish Ministerio de Educación (FF12009–09792). focusses on the exploration of the authorial voice (namely, the sequence ‘exclusive we+verb’) of Spanish Business Management (BM) scholars in English. For such purposes, I analyse part of the Spanish–English Research Article Corpus (SERAC) corpus. The corpus contains research articles in English by Anglophone writers, and in Spanish and English by Spanish writers, and was built specifically as a tool for cross-cultural research, with the aim of identifying areas of transference between the author's native cultural and linguistic background and the international one, which expresses itself in English. Results show divergences in the frequency and distribution of the sequence under investigation, both in terms of function and tense (including the association with modal verbs), which reveal the existence of pragmatic and cultural factors that may hinder the projection of a firm, confident authorial voice by Spanish academics in an increasingly competitive academic environment.

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CROSS-CULTURAL PATTERNS IN EATING DISORDERS: A REVIEW

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.94.4.a42a ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 94 (4) ◽

pp. A42-A42

Author(s):

Jennifer E. Pate ◽

Andres J. Pumariega ◽

Colleen Hester ◽

David M. Garner

Keyword(s):

Eating Disorders ◽

Cultural Factors ◽

Research Literature ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Future Research ◽

Cultural Patterns ◽

Apparent Increase ◽

Cultural Research ◽

Cross Cultural Research ◽

The World

Eating disorders were previously thought to be isolated to achievement-oriented, upper and middle class individuals in Western countries. It now appears that these disorders may be increasing in other sectors of society and in a number of diverse cultural settings. We review the studies that comprise the relevant cross-cultural research literature on eating disorders. We also discuss the changing cultural factors that may be contributing to the apparent increase in these disorders around the world and directions for future research on such factors.

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Cross-Cultural Research in MIS

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-026-4.ch137 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 847-851

Author(s):

Elena Karahanna ◽

Roberto Evaristo ◽

Mark Srite

Keyword(s):

Information Technology ◽

Information Systems ◽

Cultural Differences ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Methodological Issue ◽

Cultural Factors ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Limited Attention ◽

Cultural Research ◽

Cross Cultural Research

“Globalization of business highlights the need to understand the management of organizations that span different nations and cultures” (Srite et al., 2003, p. 31). In these multinational and transcultural organizations, there is a growing call for utilizing information technology (IT) to achieve efficiencies, coordination, and communication. However, cultural differences between countries may have an impact on the effectiveness and efficiency of IT deployment. Despite its importance, the effect of cultural factors has received limited attention from information systems’ (IS) researchers. In a review of cross-cultural research specifically focused on the MIS area (Evaristo, Karahanna, & Srite, 2000), a very limited number of studies were found that could be classi- fied as cross-cultural. Additionally, even though many of the studies found provided useful insights, raised interesting questions, and generally contributed toward the advancement of the state of the art in its field, with few exceptions, no study specifically addressed equivalency issues central to measurement in cross-cultural research. It is this methodological issue of equivalency that is the focus of this article.

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Modal hedging verbs in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) Business Management research articles

Kalbotyra ◽

10.15388/klbt.2016.10371 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 69 (69) ◽

pp. 153 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Pilar Mur-Dueñas

Keyword(s):

Business Management ◽

English For Academic Purposes ◽

Research Articles ◽

Lingua Franca ◽

Modal Verbs ◽

Cultural Research ◽

Frequency Of Use ◽

Academic Communication ◽

Knowledge Claims ◽

International English

When publishing the results of their research, scholars need to convince their readers of the validity of their claims, adjusting their writing to the prevailing discursive and rhetorical conventions. Hedges play a crucial role in persuading readers of such validity. Previous cross-cultural research in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) has revealed significant differences in the use of these interpersonal features in research articles (RAs) in different languages and publication contexts. In this paper, hedging modal verbs will be contrastively analysed in a corpus of RAs written by English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) users and by native English scholars affiliated to Anglophone institutions in the field of Business Management. The frequency of use of hedging modal verbs, their main functional uses, and their particular phraseological realizations will be examined. The results will help us gain an insight into how new knowledge claims are negotiated in international English-medium publications in this discipline as well as into the particular shaping of ELF written academic communication.

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Subcultural Delusions and Hallucinations Comments on the Present State Examination in a Multi-Cultural Context

The British Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.1192/bjp.146.4.391 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 146 (4) ◽

pp. 391-394 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

L. Swartz ◽

O. Ben-Arie ◽

A. F. Teggin

Keyword(s):

Present State ◽

Cultural Context ◽

Cultural Factors ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Research Model ◽

Cultural Research ◽

Cross Cultural Research ◽

State Examination

SummaryThe challenges presented by the Present State Examination (PSE) in a multi-cultural context are explored. The general approach to the use of this instrument, difficulties with rating items relevant to cultural or subcultural conditions, and particularly the assessment of psychosis are considered, as well as the possibility of additions to and modifications of the PSE-CATEGO system. Though disagreement exists as to whether the research model which the PSE represents is adequate to deal exhaustively with cultural factors, the instrument is useful in cross-cultural research and also in stimulating debate and crystallising issues.

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Cross-Cultural Research in MIS

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, First Edition ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-553-5.ch113 ◽

2005 ◽

pp. 640-644

Author(s):

Elena Karahanna ◽

Roberto Evaristo ◽

Mark Srite

Keyword(s):

Information Technology ◽

Information Systems ◽

Cultural Differences ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Methodological Issue ◽

Cultural Factors ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Limited Attention ◽

Cultural Research ◽

Cross Cultural Research

“Globalization of business highlights the need to understand the management of organizations that span different nations and cultures” (Srite et al., 2003, p. 31). In these multinational and transcultural organizations, there is a growing call for utilizing information technology (IT) to achieve efficiencies, coordination, and communication. However, cultural differences between countries may have an impact on the effectiveness and efficiency of IT deployment. Despite its importance, the effect of cultural factors has received limited attention from information systems’ (IS) researchers. In a review of cross-cultural research specifically focused on the MIS area (Evaristo, Karahanna, & Srite, 2000), a very limited number of studies were found that could be classified as cross-cultural. Additionally, even though many of the studies found provided useful insights, raised interesting questions, and generally contributed toward the advancement of the state of the art in its field, with few exceptions, no study specifically addressed equivalency issues central to measurement in cross-cultural research. It is this methodological issue of equivalency that is the focus of this article.

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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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Sociocultural memory development research drives new directions in gadgetry science

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x19000979 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 42 ◽

Author(s):

Penny Van Bergen ◽

John Sutton

Keyword(s):

Episodic Memory ◽

Autobiographical Memory ◽

Developmental Psychology ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Memory Development ◽

Development Research ◽

Cultural Research ◽

New Directions ◽

Cross Cultural Research

Abstract Sociocultural developmental psychology can drive new directions in gadgetry science. We use autobiographical memory, a compound capacity incorporating episodic memory, as a case study. Autobiographical memory emerges late in development, supported by interactions with parents. Intervention research highlights the causal influence of these interactions, whereas cross-cultural research demonstrates culturally determined diversity. Different patterns of inheritance are discussed.

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