On Acknowledgements in Ethnographies

Ben‐Ari, Eyal

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“…Building on this last idea of acknowledgments as a sign of strength, the concept of the “handicap principle” for citations suggested by Nicolaisen () and Nicolaisen and Frandsen () perhaps could be applied to acknowledgments, too, in the way that authors acknowledge sources of funding and the PIC of other strong colleagues as a “cost signaling” element. In the words of Ben‐Ari (, p. 67), the authors of the papers with acknowledgments could be sending a meta‐message of “listen to me because I am related to someone important enough not to be ignored”…”

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Approaching the “reward triangle”: General analysis of the presence of funding acknowledgments and “peer interactive communication” in scientific publications

Costas

Leeuwen

2012

J Am Soc Inf Sci Tec

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Understanding the role of acknowledgments given by researchers in their publications has been a recurrent challenge in the bibliometric field, but relatively unexplored until now. This study presents a general bibliometric analysis on the new “funding acknowledgment” (FA) information available in the Web of Science. All publications covered by the database in 2009 have been analyzed. The presence and length of the FA text, as well as the presence of “peer interactive communication” in the acknowledgments, are related to impact indicators, distribution of papers by fields, countries of the authors, and collaboration level of the papers. It is observed that publications with FAs present a higher impact as compared with publications without them. There are also differences across countries and disciplines in the share of publications with FAs and the acknowledgment of peer interactive communication. China is the country with the highest share of publications acknowledging funding, while the presence of FAs in the humanities and social sciences is very low compared to the more basic disciplines. The presence of peer interactive communication in acknowledgments can be linked to countries that have a strong scientific tradition and are incorporated in scientific networks. Peer interactive communication is also common in the fields of humanities and social sciences and can be linked to lower levels of co‐authorship. Observed patterns are explained and topics of future research are proposed.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Approaching the “reward triangle”: General analysis of the presence of funding acknowledgments and “peer interactive communication” in scientific publications

Costas

Leeuwen

2012

J Am Soc Inf Sci Tec

102

122

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“…Studies that have examined the ways native speakers of English articulate their thanks in DAs include Ben-Ari (1987) and Gesuato (2004). Ben-Ari investigated the acknowledgements in two hundred anthropological ethnographies, defining them as Formulations that take on an intermediate position between the internal contents of the Ethnography and the people and relationships outside it: they are both an introduction to an intellectual product and a reconstruction of the external contributions that have gone towards its realization.…”

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A Genre Study of Undergraduate Dissertation Acknowledgements in a Ghanaian University

Afful¹

2016

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In recent times, scholars and researchers in Applied Linguistics have increasingly shown interest in dissertation acknowledgements/thesis acknowledgements (DAs/TAs) in various settings (Anglo-American, Arabic, and Asian), leaving those from Sub-Saharan Africa under-researched. The present study seeks to examine the DAs of undergraduate students at a Ghanaian university, following Hyland (2003Hyland ( , 2004. A data set of 200 DAs was obtained from two departments, English and Entomology & Wild Life. The qualitative research design was used as the main approach, supplemented by some descriptive statistics, to analyze the schematic structure and lexico-grammatical choices in the data set. Two key findings were observed in the study. First, the analysis showed a three-move pattern across the two sets of data and a slight differentiation in terms of text length across the exemplars. Secondly, the DAs from both departments deployed gratitude-related terms and socio-culturally conditioned names, while hybridized forms (realized in sociolinguistic terms as code-mixing) were preferably used in the DAs from the Department of English. These findings have implications for research on DAs/TAs, genre studies, and undergraduate research writing pedagogy.Key words dissertation acknowledgement, Ghana, undergraduate students, writing pedagogy. A GENRE STUDY OF UNDERGRADUATE DISSERTATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IN A GHANAIAN UNIVERSITYVol. 4(2)(2016): Sažetak Naučnici i istraživači u oblasti primenjene lingvistike poslednjih godina iskazuju sve više interesovanja za zahvalnice u disertacijama/tezama u različitim okruženjima (anglo-američkom, arapskom i azijskom), pri čemu nema dovoljno radova o zahvalnicama u regionu potsaharske Afrike. Zasnovan na Hajlendovoj (2003Hajlendovoj ( , 2004 analizi, ovaj rad ima za cilj da istraži zahvalnice u diplomskim radovima studenata na jednom univerzitetu u Gani. Podaci su prikupljeni iz 200 diplomskih radova sa dva odseka, za engleski jezik i za entomologiju i divlje životinje. Kao glavni pristup korišćeno je kvalitativno istraživanje potkrepljeno deskriptivnom statistikom da bi se analizirala shematska struktura i leksikogramatički izbori u podacima. Dobijena su dva glavna nalaza: prvo, analiza je ukazala na troetapni obrazac u oba seta podataka, kao i izvesnu razliku u dužini teksta. Drugo, zahvalnice u diplomskim radovima sa oba odseka koriste izraze vezane za zahvaljivanje i socio-kulturološki uslovljene nazive, dok se hibridni oblici (realizovani sociolingvistički kao mešanje kodova) koriste u diplomskim radovima sa odseka za engleski jezik. Ovi nalazi imaju implikacije za istraživanje zahvalnica u tezama i disertacijama, proučavanja žanra, kao i za nastavnu praksu akademskog pisanja.Ključne reči zahvalnice u disertacijama, Gana, studenti dodiplomskih studija, nastava akademskog pisanja. INTRODUCTIONAcknowledgements in scholarly writing are viewed as a frequent component of academic publications. Their popularity is borne out of the obligation the academic community has implicitly im...

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“…They can therefore represent strategic choices in 'careering' by showing the writer in a positive light and managing his or her relations to the disciplinary community (Ben-Ari 1987). The fact that they not only point outwards to the factors which help construct the text but also inwards to its author means that acknowledgements play an important role in a writer's efforts to create both a professional and personal identity.…”

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“I would like to thank my supervisor”. Acknowledgements in graduate dissertations

Hyland

Tse

2004

Int J App Linguistics

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While acknowledgements have been largely neglected in the EAP literature, they are almost universal in dissertation writing, where they offer students a unique rhetorical space to convey their genuine gratitude for assistance and to promote a favourable social and scholarly character. This article explores the importance of this genre and examines the generic structure and linguistic patterns used to express thanks. The study is based on analyses of the acknowledgements accompanying 240 Masters and PhD dissertations in six academic disciplines written by students at five Hong Kong universities, and on interviews with postgraduate writers. The results confirm the importance of this genre, with around 90% of the texts containing this section and some 1400 separate acts of acknowledgement. Genre patterns reveal a three‐move structure sub‐divided into a number of steps realised by a relatively restricted range of lexico‐grammatical patterns. The analysis also shows that PhD students, particularly those in the “soft” sciences, tended to construct generically more complex acknowledgements with a greater variety of patterns. It is argued that the unexamined nature of acknowledgements may disadvantage non‐native writers, and the authors suggest that EAP teachers assist their students by raising their awareness of the ways they can structure their acknowledgements to promote a competent academic identity.

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On Acknowledgements in Ethnographies

Cited by 48 publications

References 48 publications

Approaching the “reward triangle”: General analysis of the presence of funding acknowledgments and “peer interactive communication” in scientific publications

Approaching the “reward triangle”: General analysis of the presence of funding acknowledgments and “peer interactive communication” in scientific publications

A Genre Study of Undergraduate Dissertation Acknowledgements in a Ghanaian University

“I would like to thank my supervisor”. Acknowledgements in graduate dissertations

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