خلاصة:
This study examined disciplinary rhetoric in research articles, focusing on different traditions in structuring text discourses from a metadiscourse-move analytic approach. The corpus consisted of 72 research article Introductions (RAIs): 36 in applied linguistics and 36 in chemistry. Swales’ CARS model (1990, 2004) and Hyland’s interpersonal model of metadiscourse (2005) were used as analytical frameworks for move and metadiscourse analyses, respectively. Both frequency and functional analyses showed that there were considerable differences between the 2 disciplines in terms of how the writers used metadiscourse in the RAIs and how the metadiscourse markers were mapped to fulfill the rhetorical purposes of Introduction moves. Such discrepancies reflect the susceptibility of metadiscursive features to the sociorhetorical cultures conditioned by the discipline to which the writers belong. Findings have implications for teaching novices, especially nonnative speakers of English, to write research articles and help them create a convincing research space and make appropriate use of metadiscourse.
ملخص الجهاز:
and Chemistry Research Article Introductions1 Mohsen Khedri2 & Konstantinos Kritsis3 Received: 05/11/2017 Accepted: 21/07/2018 Abstract This study examined disciplinary rhetoric in research articles, focusing on different traditions in structuring text discourses from a metadiscourse-move analytic approach.
As an often-studied academic genre, research articles have also been used to scrutinize rhetorical options, such as lexical bundles (Cortes, 2013), transitivity structures (Martínez, 2001), citations (Hyland, 1999), reporting verbs (Thompson & Ye, 1991), and metadiscourse markers (Hyland & Tse, 2004).
As a repertoire of textual properties to construct discourse, metadiscourse use in the high-stakes genre of research articles has received much attention during the last few decades (Cao & Hu, 2014; Crismore, Markkanen, & Steffensen, 1993; Dahl, 2004; Hyland, 1998, 2001, 2005; Ifantidou, 2005; Khedri, 2016; Khedri, Swee Heng, & Ebrahimi, 2013; Loi & Lim, 2013; McGrath & Kuteeva, 2012; Vande Kopple, 1985).
To address all the aforementioned lacunae in the disciplinary knowledge, this corpus-based study aimed to examine the move-specific use and discursive functions of both the interactive and interactional metadiscourse markers proposed by Hyland (2005) in RAIs within the disciplines of applied linguistics and chemistry.
2. How do applied linguistics and chemistry writers use metadiscourse to fulfill the rhetorical purposes of Introduction moves?
2. Metadiscourse: Functional Analysis The functional analysis showed that transitions were used in both applied linguistics and chemistry for communal discourse functions embedded in the rhetorical purpose of the RAIs. Their most common use was providing readers with 58 | basic and particular information regarding the topic being reported (78.