Discourse functions of grammatical subject in result and discussion sections of research article across four disciplines

Ebrahimi, Seyed Foad; Heng, Chan Swee; Abdullah, Ain Nadzimah

doi:10.17239/jowr-2014.06.02.2

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“…Many researchers have investigated RA or its sections for different linguistic features in one discipline or across different disciplines focusing on elements such as theme (Ebrahimi, Chan & Ain 2014, Lores 2004, first person pronoun (Harwood 2005), metadiscourse markers (Gillaerts & Van de Velde 2010, Hu & Cao 2011, Khedri et. al.…”

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“…In exploring theme, Davis (1988) forwards a two-part analysis, namely obligatory topic realised by the grammatical subject (GS) (example 1) and optional context frames (CF) (example 2) realised by any element preceding the GS. A considerable amount of literature has been published on the manifestation of theme in the genre of RA and its sections in the last two decades (Ebrahimi, Chan & Ain 2014, Gosden 1992, 1993, Jalilifar 2010, Martinez 2003, Whittaker 1995. Martinez (2003) investigated the manifestation of theme in the method and discussion sections of Biology RAs.…”

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Choice and Use of Context Frames to Augment the Writing of Result and Discussion Section of Research Articles across Four Disciplines

Ebrahimi

Chan²,

Tan³

2015

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This study focuses on the use and discourse functions of context frame markers in the result Gosden's (1992) taxonomy. Findings showed disciplinary differences in relation to the realisation of the context frame types, frequencies, and associated discourse functions. These differences in terms of types, frequencies, and discourse functions of context frames are imposed by the nature of the rhetorical section of result and discussion, the nature of the discipline, and both the nature of rhetorical section of result and discussion and the discipline, respectively. Findings suggest that context frames are an important means which the writer uses to deliver claims and arguments in results and discussion. As a result of the dictums imposed by the generic RA section and the nature of the discipline, marked disciplinary differences are found in the writing endeavour.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Choice and Use of Context Frames to Augment the Writing of Result and Discussion Section of Research Articles across Four Disciplines

Ebrahimi

Chan²,

Tan³

2015

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“…Another topical Theme observed in the dentistry RA abstracts is the first-person plural pronouns 'we/our', which were employed in five out of the seven dentistry subdisciplines. The use of this form indicates an authorial stance and increased author visibility (Ebrahimi & Chan, 2015;Ebrahimi, Chan, & Ain, 2014;Leong et al, 2018;McKenna, 1997). Whereas this form occurred frequently in the oral and maxillofacial surgery subdiscipline (47 instances), it rarely occurred in the other four subdisciplines (2-8 instances).…”

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The Status of Theme in Research Article Abstracts in Seven Dentistry Subdisciplines: A Text-Based Study of Intradisciplinary Variations and Similarities in Thematic Choices and Thematic Progression Patterns

Alyousef

2021

JLE

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A research article (RA) abstract provides an overview or summary of the whole research. It is one of the most important sections in an RA since it is the first section researchers read to decide if the article is relevant to their research or not. Researchers need to know the intradisciplinary (within the same discipline) variations and similarities in the choice of Theme and thematic progression (TP) patterns in RA abstracts in their discipline. Several studies have investigated variations and similarities in the use of Theme across disciplines. To the best of our knowledge, there is a lack of studies investigating intradisciplinary variations in the use of Theme in RA abstracts of dentistry subdisciplines. As epistemological differences exist between the various dentistry subdisciplines, it is pertinent to examine if there are intradisciplinary variations in the construction of Theme in the subfields of dentistry. The present study aims to investigate if there are any intradisciplinary variations and similarities in the use of Theme and TP patterns across seven dentistry subdisciplines: oral sciences, periodontics, endodontics, operative dentistry, prosthodontics, oral and maxillofacial surgery, and orthodontics. The study is framed by Halliday’s systemic functional linguistics’ approach to language and Daneš’s model for TP patterns. The findings revealed intradisciplinary significant differences between the subfields of dentistry in terms of the use of Theme types at p < .05 (p-value=0.0294), while there were no significant differences in the use of TP patterns and thematic markedness. Various interesting linguistic features characterizing the subdisciplines were found, although no significant interdisciplinary differences were found between dentistry RA abstracts and the findings reported in the literature of other disciplines. Finally, implications for novice dental researchers attempting to write an RA abstract are presented.

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“…The hard-soft categorization, explained above, presents differences in the ways writers fulfill the communicative functions in their writing (Durrant, 2017). Some studies have examined hard and soft sciences in various topics such as genre analysis (e.g., Hu & Liu, 2018), meta-discourse markers (e.g., Abdel Salam, 2018), grammatical subject (e.g., Ebrahimi & Heng, 2018), and lexical cohesion (e.g., Shahrokhi, Sadeghi, & Amiri, 2013) the focus of which was to investigate variations in the use of strategies across disciplines.…”

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A Cross-disciplinary Study on Evaluative Strategies in Research Articles Conclusion Sections

Farnia

Saeedi

Amirghofran

2020

IJREE

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In academia, different disciplines tend to represent themselves, their writers, and their readers in unique ways. To be able to probe into such crossdisciplinary discursive variations, the present cross-disciplinary study used Martin and White's appraisal framework incorporating lexico-grammar and language evaluation strategies to explore the linguistic construal of evaluative stance in the conclusion section of academic research articles. To this end, a corpus of 160 research articles randomly selected from English international journals of psychology as a representative of soft sciences and industrial engineering as a representative of hard sciences were examined in the light of Martin and White's scheme, with a focus on graduation. To code the data, UAM Corpus Tool was used for the ease of descriptive analyses. In general, the findings indicated that the number of graduation words and graduation types were significantly higher in the hard science corpus compared to the soft science one, suggesting that the authors of hard science articles mainly attempted to express their appreciation and judgment and report the fluctuation of a specific feature in their findings.

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Discourse functions of grammatical subject in result and discussion sections of research article across four disciplines

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Cited by 7 publications

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Choice and Use of Context Frames to Augment the Writing of Result and Discussion Section of Research Articles across Four Disciplines

Choice and Use of Context Frames to Augment the Writing of Result and Discussion Section of Research Articles across Four Disciplines

The Status of Theme in Research Article Abstracts in Seven Dentistry Subdisciplines: A Text-Based Study of Intradisciplinary Variations and Similarities in Thematic Choices and Thematic Progression Patterns

A Cross-disciplinary Study on Evaluative Strategies in Research Articles Conclusion Sections

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