Multidimensional analysis of Master thesis abstracts: a diachronic perspective

Xie, Shaoliang

doi:10.1007/s11192-020-03408-6

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“…By studying and cross-examining the results from different aspects, we can explicitly uncover the language features of a given genre. Such a scope of adopting the multidimensional approach is effective for tapping the language features of a given professional genre (Xie, 2020;Mu, 2021). According to SFL, certain language variables can take on specific functions (Halliday & Matthiessen, 2014).…”

Section: Review Of Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring Language Features of FIDIC Conditions from the Lens of Multi-dimensional Approach

Yuzhu,

Ibrahim

2024

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The increased exchanges of construction endeavors between China and her international counterparts have highlighted the importance of construction contracts, underlining the significance of the FIDIC Conditions for its wide adoption worldwide. However, a language perspective has yet to be adopted when exploring construction contracts. This study aims to uncover the language features of the General Conditions in the Red Book of FIDIC Conditions from the scope of the Multi-dimensional approach, which is conducive to a better understanding of construction contracts. In this study, salient language features of the General Conditions were uncovered in a visualized manner through the employment of the Multidimensional Analysis Tagger (MAT). It was found that nouns and normalization were frequently used in the General Conditions, with high frequencies of attributive adjectives, total prepositional phrases, predictive modals, and passive voice (agentless passives and bypassives). As to the general genre features of the Red Book, it was found to possess the features of being information-oriented, non-narrative, context-independent, self-assertive, abstract, and non-real-time-oriented. Those features further render the conditions formality in style, explicitness in communicative purposes, objectivity in stance, and authority in position. Such findings interrelate with each other and corroborate each other. They are of great professional and pedagogical significance for non-native practitioners.

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Section: Review Of Literaturementioning

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Exploring Language Features of FIDIC Conditions from the Lens of Multi-dimensional Approach

Yuzhu,

Ibrahim

2024

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“…The variability of rhetorical structure has also been investigated where a general trend of rhetorical structure evolution could be periodical. Xie (2020), by adopting multidimensional analysis, investigated the diachronic variation of styles in the Master thesis by Chinese students across 10 years. The results exhibited that a general trend is fluctuated in a 3-year-cycle pattern.…”

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Rhetorical structure parallels research topic in LIS articles: a temporal bibliometrics examination

Wen

He²,

Xu³

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PurposeThe effectiveness of rhetorical structure is essential to communicate key messages in research articles (RAs). The interdisciplinary nature of library and information science (LIS) has led to unclear patterns and practice of using rhetorical structures. Understanding how RAs are constructed in LIS to facilitate effective scholarly communication is important. Numerous studies investigated the rhetorical structure of RAs in a range of disciplines, but LIS articles have not been well studied.Design/methodology/approachIn this study, the authors encoded rhetorical structures to 2,216 articles in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology covering a period from 2001 to 2018 with the approaches of co-word analysis and visualization. The results show that the predominant rhetorical structures used by LIS researchers follow the sequence of Introduction-Literature Review-Methodology-Result-Discussion-Conclusion (ILMRDC).FindingsThe authors' temporal examination reveals the shifts of evolutionary pattern of rhetorical structure in 2008 and 2014. More importantly, the authors' study demonstrates that rhetorical structures have varied greatly across research areas in LIS community. For example, scholarly communication and scientometrics studies tend to exclude literature review in articles.Originality/valueThe present paper offers a first systematic examination of how rhetorical structures are used in a representative sample of a LIS journal, especially from a temporal perspective.

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“…Friginal and Weigle (2014) identified the functional dimensions of L2 academic essays and analyzed linguistic variation in the corpus across parameters of time and average assessment scores. A small number of Chinese scholars compare the English abstracts of Chinese and international core journals from dimensions and linguistic features (Xie & Ma, 2021;Zhang et al, 2018), and the textual and linguistic changes in English abstracts have also been investigated from a diachronic perspective (Xie, 2020).…”

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A Multi-Dimensional Contrastive Analysis on English Abstracts in Chinese Master’s Theses and International Core Journal Articles

Shi,

Liu

2023

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As a signpost for the reader, the abstract contains the main body of a thesis and summarizes the most important information in an article. Thus, it is essential for assessing the quality and value of a thesis. This research aims to provide insight into the linguistic features of English abstract writing. Based on the multi-dimensional analysis approach proposed by Biber (1988), this study investigates the difference in English abstracts between the Chinese master’s theses (CMT) and the international core journal article (ICJA). With the help of the MAT (Multi-dimensional Analysis Tagger 1.3) analysis tool, the corpus of 100 English abstracts from these 2 resources has been analyzed for comparison of the functional and lexical-grammatical features in 6 dimensions. The results show that there are differences between CMT and ICJA’s English abstracts in dimension 4 (Overt Expression of Persuasion) and dimension 6 (On-line Informational Elaboration), and 25 linguistic features across these 6 dimensions. The results help learners identify the differences in dimensions and linguistic features between their English abstracts and those written by experts to improve their abstract writing and to write more native-like theses.

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Multidimensional analysis of Master thesis abstracts: a diachronic perspective

Cited by 9 publications

References 68 publications

Exploring Language Features of FIDIC Conditions from the Lens of Multi-dimensional Approach

Exploring Language Features of FIDIC Conditions from the Lens of Multi-dimensional Approach

Rhetorical structure parallels research topic in LIS articles: a temporal bibliometrics examination

A Multi-Dimensional Contrastive Analysis on English Abstracts in Chinese Master’s Theses and International Core Journal Articles

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