خلاصة:
The main purpose of this study was to examine the citation patterns of discussion sections employed by local and international article writers in ESP and EGP subdisciplines of applied linguistics. Eighty article discussion sections were selected from well-established local and international journals in the field of applied linguistics، and they were sorted according to Thompson and Tribble’s (2001) framework. The results revealed that local ESP and EGP writers tended to apply the integral citations to a far greater extent than the non-integral. On the other hand، international writers used citation to a significantly higher degree than local writers; ESP writers preferred the integral over the non-integral form. In contrast، international writers in EGP articles took more advantage from non-integral types، among which they selected source more than other types. In terms of integral types، verb controlling received the highest frequency. The potential diversities existing in the discussion sections written by local and international writers suggest that international writers seem to focus more on functional than formal criteria and use a wider range of citation types، giving more credit to the works of others. These differences appeared to be related to citation patterns and discoursal conventions across subdisciplines.
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com Abstract The main purpose of this study was to examine the citation patterns of discussion sections employed by local and international article writers in ESP and EGP subdisciplines of applied linguistics.
Citation, which involves reference to something external to the citing text (Pecorari, 2006: 3), has been seen as an instrument for achieving the rhetorical purposes of the writer, with syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic variables, and it can be categorized as integral or non- integral (Hyland, 1999; Petric, 2007; Swales, 1990; Thompson, 1996; Thompson & Trrible, 2001; White, 2004).
Given the significance of citation in the discussion sections of research articles (RAs), and the fact that citation analysis in RAs in different subdisciplines of applied linguistics has not received the right attention, this study, thus, aims to investigate the nature of citation structures manifested in the discussion sections of RAs in two sub- disciplines of applied linguistics, namely English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and English for General Purposes (EGP) across articles published internationally and locally, in Iran.
Significant differences were observed in non-integral citations in local and international ESP articles (chi-square= 7.
As far as integral citations practices were concerned in the discussion sections of international EGP and ESP articles, differences between these two subdisciplines were revealed because the chi-square value (11.
The frequency of non-integral citations in ESP and EGP article discussions was 66 and 96, respectively with the chi-square test showing significant differences with the value of chi-square (5.