Rhetorical evolution of oppositional discourse in French academic writing. Oppositional discourse in academic writing

Salager‐Meyer, Françoise

doi:10.7146/hjlcb.v13i25.25583

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“…Salager-Meyer (2002) analyzed the speech acts used in medical education and found that not using hedging and mitigating and using self direct and sarcastic tone correlates positively with the social role of the writers in their respective communities as the dominant experts who always advise others and are knowledge holders. Salager-Meyer (2000) in another study probes AC or academic conflict realizations in 90 medical articles published in the period of 1810-1995. Like some of the previous studies, the time divided into two periods.…”

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“…However, the literature is replete with studies on criticism of medical discourse. The researchers actually have done studies on AC variable in different medical genres (Salager-Meyer, 1999 ;Salager-Meyer, 2002;Salager-Meyer, 2000;Salager-Meyer, and Zambrano, 2001;Salager-Meyer and Alcaraz Ariza and Zambrano, 2003;Salager-Meyer, 2000). Some researchers have constrained the area of research on special parts of the papers such as abstracts ( Martín-Martín and Burgess, 2004;Stotesbury, 2003) .Despite the studies done on this area, Hyland (2000) believes that our knowledge regarding criticism is very low and more work needs to be done on this area.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Rhetorical Analysis of Criticism in Persian and English Linguistics Papers

Dezfoolian

2017

Int. J. Appl. Linguist. Engl. Lit.

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Successful academic writing depends on being familiar with different rhetorical strategies .One of these strategies used by authors of scientific articles is the act of criticism, the criticism of the previous works or other members of their respective communities. Actually this helps writers to justify their own study and to create a gap. Therefore the socio-pragmatic variable of Academic Conflict (AC) has been investigated in different academic genres and disciplines. This study aims to examine this variable in linguistics papers in Persian and English. To this end a corpus of 60 papers, 30 in Persian and 30 in English, have been chosen randomly. First in the quantitative phase of the study, the direct and indirect AC variables that have been used for critical speech acts were compared by within and between languages and then in a qualitative examine, the discourse analysis of important features were examined to show the probable relations to the cultural contexts . The results showed that English writers used more criticism acts than Persian writers and both groups used direct AC more than indirect one. Although both groups of papers are written in different cultural contexts, the strategies used by authors seem familiar and have minute differences and this may show that the effect of discipline and the language of instruction are more than cultural contexts in rhetoric of criticism.

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The Rhetorical Analysis of Criticism in Persian and English Linguistics Papers

Dezfoolian

2017

Int. J. Appl. Linguist. Engl. Lit.

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“…Among the examples of the material used to perform the research were recorded CRs which have all of the characteristics of strong criticism described above, e.g. : (6) This study was an outcome study investigating the effectiveness regarding three different treatment groups, psychologically/psychodynamically-oriented-, pharmacological treatment ant its combination in a routine psychiatric unit. <…> There are many limitations in the study.…”

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Pragmatic Types of Critical Remarks in English-Language Research Articles in Psychology

Balatska¹,

Bolotnikova²

2019

New Stages of Development of Modern Science in Ukraine and EU Countries

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The article analyzes pragmatic types of criticism in English-language research articles in Psychology, whereas the research article is considered to be the leading genre of English-language scientific discourse. The issue has been studied in a corpus of 35 English-language research articles in Psychology published in scientific journals of the UK and the USA. The methods used in the research include definitive, text, text-interpretation, component, pragmatic-functional, quantitative analysis, as well as cognitive-discursive interpretation method. According to the obtained results, the pragmatic potential of criticism in the English-language research article in Psychology is represented by modifications of negative evaluation, which form not two types of criticism as indicated in other studies that deal with pragmatic types of academic criticism, but three types, which include: weak criticism, moderate criticism, and strong criticism. In order to determine modifications of expressing negative evaluation in critical remarks we used their formal features (extendedness / unextendedness of a critical remark), content features (belonging of a critical remark to the personal / impersonal type), means of negative evaluation (explicit (lexical or lexico-grammatical) means of negative evaluation, implicit means of negative evaluation), the use of hedges and boosters. Weak criticism in research articles in Psychology is verbalized with unextended, impersonal critical remarks that have explicit lexico-gramamtical means of negative evaluation or, less often, implicit means of

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“…Albeit there are some historical analyses in medical and science disciplines (Ayers, 2008;Bazerman, 1988;Gross, et. al, 2002;Salager--Meyer, 1999a, 1999b, 2000, regarding the overall structure, we know very little about the modifications and changes in the rhetorical and generic structure of the different parts of RAs over different periods of time. More particularly, there has been a dearth of studies regarding the generic differences that might exist among the discussion sections of Applied Linguistics RAs in international journals across time.…”

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The rhetorical organization of research article discussion sections: An investigation into genre evolution in applied linguistics

Jalilifar

Baninajar

Saidian

2015

GJFLT

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The present study aimed to investigate the evolution of the rhetorical structure of research article discussions in three prestigious journals covering the two chronological periods of 1980-1989 (group A) and 2005-2010 (group B). It also studied changes in the application of the two most frequently used verb tenses − the simple present tense and the simple past tense − over the two time periods. Overall, 115 published articles were selected from the aforementioned journals. Move analysis was accomplished through application of Dudley-Evans' (1994) model on the datasets. Findings indicated that despite the overall consistency in utilizing the nine-move organization, there emerged rather considerable differences in the frequency of (Un) expected outcome and Explanation moves. A reduction in the frequency of (Un) expected outcome in group B indicated that present-day writers announce results with more caution to win the acquiescence of reviewers and readers. On the other hand, a rise in explanations revealed a growing concern for including more arguments in order to follow the analytical nature of the discussion section. The results also demonstrated a shift from the simple present tense toward the simple past tense, which marks a shift from generalization to specificity. Keywords: research article, move, discussion section, genre evolution

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Rhetorical evolution of oppositional discourse in French academic writing. Oppositional discourse in academic writing

Cited by 6 publications

References 39 publications

The Rhetorical Analysis of Criticism in Persian and English Linguistics Papers

The Rhetorical Analysis of Criticism in Persian and English Linguistics Papers

Pragmatic Types of Critical Remarks in English-Language Research Articles in Psychology

The rhetorical organization of research article discussion sections: An investigation into genre evolution in applied linguistics

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