scholarly journals The Rhetorical Structure of Short Lecture by Famous Applied Linguists Jack C. Richards Posted on YouTube

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-138
Author(s):  
Idham Widodo ◽  
Irma Diani ◽  
Safnil Safnil
Keyword(s):  
Oral Presentation ◽  
Genre Analysis ◽  
Rhetorical Structure ◽  
Proposed Model

This study aims to investigate the rhetorical structure of move and step of short lecture by famous applied linguist Jack C. Richards posted on YouTube. The data of this study were 22 video-transcripts of a short lecture of Jack C Richards. The results: (1) three moves of rhetorical structure such as M1 – Introduction, M2 – Content of Short Lecture, and M3 – Conclusion. They are 100% occurred in all of the data analyzed as obligatory category. (2) the most often found steps in the short lectures that occurred 100% and classified as obligatory category, such as M2SB – Argumentation of the short lecture and M3SA – Summarizing the points and the steps with 60-99% percentage of occurrences as classified as conventional category, namely are M1SE – Announcing topic of oral presentation, M1SA – Greeting the Audience, M2SC – Illustration of short lecture, and M2SA – Description of short lecture.  The new proposed model of spoken genre analysis adapted from Ali and Singh (2019), the Sermon model by Cheong cited in Safnil (2010) and Seliman (1996) for identifying the rhetorical structure of short lecture is effective enough to capture the possible rhetorical moves and steps in a whole text of short lecture by famous applied linguist posted in YouTube.

scholarly journals Move Analysis of Legal Justifications in Constitutional Tribunal Judgments in Poland: What They Share and What They Do Not

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 581-600 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanislaw Gozdz-Roszkowski
Keyword(s):  
Common Core ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Genre Analysis ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Written Discourse ◽  
Rhetorical Structure ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Constitutional Tribunal ◽  
The Way

Abstract It appears that we know surprisingly little about how judges frame linguistically the rationale behind their decisions and how such texts are structured. Using the concept of rhetorical moves (Swales in Genre analysis: English in academic and research settings, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990; Bhatia in Analyzing genre-language use in professional settings, Longman, London, 1993, Worlds of written discourse. A genre-based view, Continuum, London, 2004), this paper adopts a genre-based approach to examine the rhetorical structure of legal justifications provided in the decisions of the Polish Constitutional Court (Trybunał Konstytucyjny). The goal of the study is to verify the claim that the way justifications are drafted is becoming more and more uniform and conventional. The results show that there is a common core of rhetorical structure realized by means of recurrent functional segments of text. This paper proposes a prototypical move structure of a Constitutional Tribunal justification and it argues that that the way justifications are drafted are subject to very concrete, even if not explicitly stated constraints.

scholarly journals Jordanian Wedding Invitation Genre During the Covid-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 705-715
Author(s):  
Ahmad I. Tawalbeh
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Previous Literature ◽  
Analysis Approach ◽  
Genre Analysis ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Rhetorical Structure

This study examines the generic components of Arabic wedding invitation cards issued during the Covid-19 period in Jordanian society. It aims to find out the role played by the Covid-19 pandemic in shaping the rhetorical structure (moves and steps) of these cards. The sample consists of 100 electronic wedding cards which were analyzed using top-down (genre analysis approach) and bottom-up processing. The analysis shows that there are nine component moves realized by certain steps, shaping the invitation genre. It is found that this genre is subject to change which essentially affects its common main communicative purpose, viz. to invite people to celebrate the wedding in a place. It is hoped that the results of this study may confirm previous literature about the effects of the surrounding context on shaping a genre, help familiarize those interested in knowing about this Arabic genre and offer insights for those interested in conducting cross-cultural contrast.

scholarly journals TED Talks: A genre analysis

Revista X ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 1552
Author(s):  
José Augusto Simões de Miranda ◽  
Maria Ester Wollstein Moritz
Keyword(s):  
Genre Analysis ◽  
Rhetorical Structure ◽  
Diverse Audience ◽  
Ted Talks ◽  
Speaker Presentation ◽  
The Way

This research aims at investigating TED Talks as a genre. The analysis focuses on its rhetorical structure, characterized by moves and steps and the communicative purposes of the genre. The corpus comprises 10 talks selected from the website TED Talks. The data are discussed in the light of Bhatia’s (1996/2004) and Swales’ (1990/2004) theories of genre. Results demonstrate that, in terms of the analysis of the rhetorical structure, it reveals a constant pattern of moves and steps along the corpus, since every talk contained the five moves identified by the analysis. These cyclical and more frequent moves are: topic introduction, speaker presentation, topic development, concluding messages, and acknowledgments/gratitude. In terms of its communicative purpose, TED aims to celebrate ideas to a diverse audience worldwide, due to the variety of topics encompassed. This study also allowed us to develop a deeper view of this spoken genre, its features, and the way individuals may benefit from it in their lives.

scholarly journals A Genre-Based Investigation of the Introduction Sections of Academic Oral Presentations

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Kuldip Kaur Makhtiar Singh ◽  
Afida Mohamad Ali ◽  
Mei Yuit Chan ◽  
Helen Tan
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Oral Presentation ◽  
English Language ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Rhetorical Structure ◽  
Genre Awareness ◽  
Genre Knowledge ◽  
The University ◽  
Oral Presentations

The academic oral presentation (henceforth AOP) is an important genre for tertiary students across various courses and disciplines in the university. Despite the importance of AOPs for undergraduate students, relatively little is known about this genre. Using Swales’ (1990, 2004) notion of move analysis,  this paper compares the rhetorical structure of the introduction sections of academic oral presentations from two different fields, namely English language and Administrative Sciences. The findings show some similarities in the AOPs whereby the introduction section contained three moves, and their related steps were similar to previous studies on the rhetorical structure of oral presentations but with few variations.  The linguistic features used were also found to be similar in both corpora revealing that students were able to transfer their rhetorical knowledge and linguistic features from one context to another. This study reveals that variation in AOPs is possible in different courses and disciplines. Thus, having genre awareness can help students adapt their genre knowledge to the context.

scholarly journals Rhetorical Structure and Sociocultural Analysis of Muslim and Christian Obituaries in Jordanian Newspapers

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Account ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Genre Analysis ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Written Discourse ◽  
Rhetorical Structure

This paper gives a detailed account of the distinctive macro-structural and micro-linguistic properties used in Muslim and Christian obituaries in Jordan society. It also examines how socio-religious practices and beliefs are played out through the overall genre text. In order to examine the discourse, a move-based analysis was conducted upon a corpus of 150 Muslim obituary announcements (MOAs), and another 100 Christian obituary announcements (COAs). The analysis of textual and linguistic features is carried out by following Bhatia’s (1993) model as it fruitfully illumines the relation between social discursive practice and written discourse. The genre analysis of the data demonstrates that eleven communicative moves exist in both types of obituary announcements (OAs). The study also highlights that the generic genre discourse reveals several socio-cultural and religious messages about the Jordanian community that are reflected in the rhetorical components of this genre.

scholarly journals Comparative Genre Analysis of Research Article Abstracts in More and Less Prestigious Journals: Linguistics Journals in Focus

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dina Abdel Salam El-Dakhs
Keyword(s):  
Web Of Science ◽  
Genre Analysis ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Rhetorical Structure ◽  
Research Article ◽  
New Research ◽  
The Web

The current study compares the rhetorical structure and metadiscourse of research article abstracts in more and less prestigious journals in Linguistics. To this end, 200 abstracts from peer-reviewed Linguistics journals that are indexed in the Web of Science and Scopus were compared with 200 abstracts extracted from peer-reviewed Linguistics journals that are not indexed in either of these two highly ranked databases. Using Hyland’s (2000) model of move analysis and Hyland’s (2005) taxonomy of metadiscourse, the study reveals that abstracts in less prestigious journals typically include longer moves for introduction, purpose and method while abstracts in more prestigious journals include significantly lengthier findings. As for metadiscourse, abstracts in less prestigious journals employ significantly more transitions, frame markers and evidentials whereas the abstracts in more prestigious journals exhibit a higher use of code glosses, hedges, boosters and self-mentions. The results are interpreted with reference to the types of journals, and pedagogical implications and new research directions are proposed.

Replication research in comparative genre analysis in English for Academic Purposes

2014 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 377-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Basturkmen
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Studies ◽  
English For Academic Purposes ◽  
Genre Analysis ◽  
Rhetorical Structure ◽  
Text Type ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Replication Research ◽  
Potential Benefits

In recent years a number of comparative studies based on an established approach to genre analysis have been published in the English for Academic Purposes (EAP) literature. Studies in this emerging strand of research typically aim to identify how the rhetorical structure of a particular genre (a text type) or part of a genre may vary across different disciplines or groups of writers. The first part of this article makes a case for replication in this strand of research, arguing that replication would be timely and suggesting the advantages that it could offer to the field of EAP. The second part focuses on three key studies, and suggests how each one might be replicated and the potential benefits of doing so.

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