Research Article Abstracts in Applied Linguistics and Economics: Functional Analysis of the Grammatical Subject

Ebrahimi, Seyed Foad; Chan, Swee Heng

doi:10.1080/07268602.2015.1070660

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“…and Ebrahimi and Chan (2015) which confirms a five-move structure of Introduction, Purpose, Methods, Results and Conclusion. Based on the IMRD pattern, this structure is useful as it allows comparisons to be made across disciplines by folding a 'hypothesis' move used by some sciences only (e.g.…”

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“…The realisation of these authorial practices has been examined in abstracts in terms of reporting verbs (Stotesbury, 2003;Huckin, 2001;Hyland & Tse, 2005;Sala, 2014), self-mention (Bondi, 2014;Pho, 2008), grammatical subjects (Ebrahimi & Chan, 2015) and hedging and boosting (Gillaerts, 2014;Pho, 2008;Salager-Meyer, 1992). Research has also focused on move structures (e.g.…”

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Metadiscursive nouns: Interaction and cohesion in abstract moves

Jiang

Hyland

2017

English for Specific Purposes

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The rhetorical use of nouns has been less fully explored in the research of abstracts. • We illustrate the interactive and interactional functions of what we call metadiscursive nouns in 240 abstracts from six disciplines. • These nouns are frequently used to frame and manage arguments across moves in the abstracts. • They also help writers persuade readers of the relevance of their research to the discipline. • They should figure in advanced writing for publication courses.

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Section: Academic Abstractsmentioning

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Metadiscursive nouns: Interaction and cohesion in abstract moves

Jiang

Hyland

2017

English for Specific Purposes

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“…An abstract, when well prepared, is a rich and concise source of information about a scholarly work. Studies of abstracts often analyze their organization, adherence to abstracting standards, and use of linguistic mechanisms (Cross and Oppenheim 2006;Stotesbury 2003;Anderson and Maclean 1997;Ebrahimi and Chan 2015). Abstracts, like titles, have also been employed to investigate trends in themes and research areas in a given field (Rotgans 2012).…”

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An Investigation of Marine Taxa Referenced in Thesis Titles and Abstracts as a Collection Development Tool

Timms

2018

Science & Technology Libraries

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An Investigation of Marine Taxa Referenced in Thesis Titles and Abstracts as a Collection Development Tool We evaluated titles and abstracts of 372 marine biology master's theses to identify the marine taxa researched by graduate students at our institution. Of 191 species investigated since 1976, the 15 most-researched species are regionally important and have each been researched at least five times. Fisher exact tests identified taxa demonstrating statistically-significant recent growth in research. A collection analysis of monographs about these species and taxa compared to four peer institutions highlighted strengths and weaknesses within our marine biology collection. This investigation demonstrates how taxonomic data in titles and abstracts can serve as a tool to guide biology collection development.

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“…One of the important linguistic features in academic writing is grammatical subject (GS). Two of the latest studies on the discourse functions of GS are carried out by Saadabadi and Ebrahimi (2014) and Ebrahimi and Chan (2015). Saadabadi and Ebrahimi (2014) studied the use and discourse functions of GS in RA abstracts from the two disciplines of Economics and Biology.…”

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“…They also reported that, mostly, the GSs were used to serve similar discourse functions in both sets of abstracts. Ebrahimi and Chan (2015) investigated the discourse functions of GSs in RA 7 abstracts from two disciplines, namely Applied Linguistics and Economics. They analyzed 60 research article abstracts (30 from each discipline) using the classification of discourse functions of GSs suggested by Gosden (1993).…”

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“The Overall Aim of This Work Is ….” Functional Analysis of Grammatical Subject in Research Article Introductions Across Four Disciplines

Ebrahimi¹

2017

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This study investigates the types and discourse functions of grammatical subjects in research article introductions across four disciplines, namely: Applied Linguistics and Psychology, representing soft sciences, and Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, representing hard sciences. This study was carried out on a corpus of 40 research article introductions (10 from each discipline). The research article introductions were sourced from twelve ISI journals published from 2008 to 2012. The corpus was analysed based on the modified model in relation to grammatical subject types and discourse functions suggested by Ebrahimi (2014). The results revealed that the grammatical subject type selections were guided by the nature of the research article introduction. However, the frequency of use of the grammatical subject types was constrained by the nature of the discipline. Discourse functions of grammatical subject types were predominantly determined by the divisions of the hard and soft sciences, and the specific disciplines within and the internal structure of the research article introductions. In addition, the results of this study manifest a new framework for the analysis of discourse functions of grammatical subject types in research article introductions.

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Research Article Abstracts in Applied Linguistics and Economics: Functional Analysis of the Grammatical Subject

Cited by 22 publications

References 27 publications

Metadiscursive nouns: Interaction and cohesion in abstract moves

Metadiscursive nouns: Interaction and cohesion in abstract moves

An Investigation of Marine Taxa Referenced in Thesis Titles and Abstracts as a Collection Development Tool

“The Overall Aim of This Work Is ….” Functional Analysis of Grammatical Subject in Research Article Introductions Across Four Disciplines

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