Linguistic Variations across Disciplines: A Multidimensional Analysis of Pakistani Research Articles

Rashid, Aniqa; Mahmood, Muhammad Asim

doi:10.31703/gssr.2019(iv-i).04

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“…Overall, this factor marked that science and social sciences research articles had informational discourse having technical, formal, and abstract features. Comprehensively, the findings of the current research showed some similarity with Rashid (2019) work on research articles.…”

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Investigating Functional Variation across Academic Disciplines: A Multidimensional Analysis of Research Articles

Qadir,

Ahmad,

Mastoor

2023

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The current study aims to investigate the functional variation in academic writing across six major disciplines of sciences, namely biology, physics, and computer science and of social sciences, namely linguistics, sociology, and psychology research articles. Furthermore, the current study also compares the use of language in science and social sciences research articles (RAs). For this purpose, a corpus of 300 research articles from six sub-disciplines of science and social sciences journals was compiled to conduct the analysis. A Multidimensional Analysis Tagger using version 1.3.2 was selected to tag and evaluate the RAs corpus. The triangulation research method was deployed to analyze the data quantitatively and to interpret the results qualitatively. The findings indicate that there are functional differences in the language employed in academic disciplines, particularly in terms of being informational, non-narrative, and persuasive. Likewise, comparable outcomes were noticed in dimension 3. The findings indicate that there are functional differences in the language employed in academic disciplines, particularly in terms of being informational, non-narrative, and persuasive. Likewise, comparable outcomes were noticed in dimension 3. The results may be helpful for the researchers, students of different disciplines, and teachers to spot trends across various sub-disciplines.

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confidence: 60%