Mediating cross-cultural differences in research article rhetorical moves in academic translation: A pilot corpus-based study of abstracts

Li, Xiangdong

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2020.102795

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“…This is in line with previous research about students' thesis (Gustina 2020;Male 2018). Move 3 and 4 were the most manifested moves in the abstracts across education level, it is in contrast to Li's (2020) finding that Move 3 and 4 have relatively low occurrence in Chinese abstracts. Furthermore, some minor gap of move realization between Indonesian and English is identified, even though this study used parallel abstracts.…”

Section: Movesupporting

confidence: 92%

Rhetorical Move Analysis in Students’ Abstracts Across Degrees

Putri¹,

Hermawan²,

Muniroh³

2021

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2020)

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section of a thesis represents the whole text. It is the first thing that the readers will read and decides whether the readers will read the text as a whole or not. As a summary of the whole text, it is comprehensible that in writing abstracts, authors may put a lot of information compactly. Moreover, it is important to ensure that the abstract section is well delivered. Move analysis of an abstract can help authors to determine whether the abstracts accomplish necessary rhetorical actions. However, analysis of rhetorical moves of abstracts written in two languages is still scarce. Therefore, this study aims to investigate rhetorical moves patterns realized in abstracts of theses and dissertations in Indonesian and their translations in English. Hyland's (2000) five-move analysis model was used to analyze rhetorical moves patterns of 60 thesis and dissertation abstracts in social science taken from a university's online repository. This study reaches a conclusion that differences in education level may affect move and step realization in thesis or dissertation abstracts. From that point, authors should start to also include other moves such as introduction, purpose, and conclusion in their abstracts.

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Section: Movesupporting

confidence: 92%

Rhetorical Move Analysis in Students’ Abstracts Across Degrees

Putri¹,

Hermawan²,

Muniroh³

2021

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2020)

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“…This indicates students' good understanding of the rhetorical function of each move and control of the degree of authorial voice expressed in each move. As pointed out by Li (2020), abstracts function to inform and persuade readers. While students in both groups are aware of discipline-specific knowledge of abstracts, the American students seemed to promote their research more consciously with the use of a variety of stance devices than the Chinese students in the PTR, DTM, and STF moves.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Stance in academic writing has been mainly examined from two perspectives: cross-disciplinary (Hyland, 2005b;Chan, 2015;Yang, 2016;Li, 2020) and cross-linguistic (Hu and Cao, 2011;Mur-Dueñas, 2011;Kim and Lim, 2013;Jiang, 2015;Loi et al, 2016;Bax et al, 2019). A comparison of research articles in different disciplines has shown that soft disciplines generally employ more stance markers than hard disciplines (Hyland, 2005b;Chan, 2015).…”

Section: Stance In Academic Writingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although much attention has been paid to stance markers in academic writing and moves in abstracts, little is known about how novice L2 writers employ stance markers in the rhetorical moves in abstracts. In addition, most of the studies on abstracts have involved cross-linguistic or cross-disciplinary comparisons, and they have addressed disciplines in soft sciences such as applied linguistics (Hu and Cao, 2011;Can et al, 2016;Ansarifar et al, 2018;El-Dakhs, 2018;Nasseri and Thompson, 2021), literature, translation studies (Li, 2020), economics (Ebrahimi and Chan, 2015), and accounting (Amnuai, 2019).…”

Section: Stance In Academic Writingmentioning

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A corpus-based study on Chinese and American students' rhetorical moves and stance features in dissertation abstracts

Liu

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Dissertation is the most important research genre for graduate students as they step into the academic community. The abstract found at the beginning of the dissertation is an essential part of the dissertation, serving to “sell” the study and impress the readers. Learning to compose a well-organized abstract to promote one's research is therefore an important skill for novice writers when they step into the academic community in their discipline. By comparing 112 dissertation abstracts in material science by Chinese and American doctoral students, this study attempts to analyze not only the rhetorical moves of dissertation abstracts but also the lexical-grammatical features of stance in different abstract moves. The findings show that most of the abstracts include five moves, namely, Situating the research, Presenting the research, Describing the methodology, Summarizing the findings, and Discussing the research. However, fewer abstracts by Chinese students include all five moves. In addition, the choices of stance expressions by the two groups vary across the five abstract moves for different communication purposes. The results of this study have pedagogical implications for facilitating the development of academic writing skills for L2 writers.

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“…The result showed that the move patterns mostly used are Introduction, Purpose, Method, and Product (I-P-M-Pr). On the other hand, Li (2020) analysed the rhetorical move used in Chinese RAAs and its English translation. The results showed that Product and Method were mostly used in English RAAs.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rhetorical Move Analysis in Humanities and Hard Science Students’ Undergraduate Thesis Abstracts

Pratiwi¹,

Hermawan²,

Muniroh³

2021

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2020)

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is an important part of an undergraduate thesis that contains a summary of the entire data. A good abstract must be patterned well using a rhetorical move. This study aims to identify the rhetorical move used in abstracts by Humanities and Hard Science students in Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia. 30 abstracts in Bahasa Indonesia and their translation in English (a total of 60 abstracts) were taken from six disciplines i.e., English Language Education, Indonesian Language and Literature Education, Sundanese Language Education, International Program on Science Education, Chemistry Education, and Mathematics Education. Content Analysis was used as the instrument of analysing data. Hyland's Five-Move Analysis model was also used as the guideline for the analysis. The result showed that Findings and Methodology were mostly used in the undergraduate thesis abstract. In conclusion, different disciplines affect the implementation of the rhetorical move in abstracts. The finding is important to describe the rhetorical move used by Humanities and Hard Science students in making abstracts. However, this study only reveals the rhetorical move used by six disciplines. Because of that, it is recommended for future researchers to analyse rhetorical move used by other disciplines; not only in making thesis abstracts but also dissertations abstracts.

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Mediating cross-cultural differences in research article rhetorical moves in academic translation: A pilot corpus-based study of abstracts

Cited by 17 publications

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Rhetorical Move Analysis in Students’ Abstracts Across Degrees

Rhetorical Move Analysis in Students’ Abstracts Across Degrees

A corpus-based study on Chinese and American students' rhetorical moves and stance features in dissertation abstracts

Rhetorical Move Analysis in Humanities and Hard Science Students’ Undergraduate Thesis Abstracts

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