Stance and engagement in English and Arabic research article abstracts

Alghazo, Sharif; Salem, Mohd Nour Al; Alrashdan, Imran

doi:10.1016/j.system.2021.102681

Cited by 26 publications

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“…This study has implications for EAP teaching and EAL/EFL/ESL writing. Our findings indicate that the divergent use of stance markers may not only arise from the cultural and disciplinary factors, as highlighted by previous scholars (e.g., Mu et al, 2015;Chen and Zhang, 2017;Alghazo et al, 2021;Ädel, 2022), but also by the individual, institutional, social, and dynamic developmental ones. Such findings can be drawn upon by EAP and EAL/EFL/ESL teachers and practitioners to foster students' proper academic writing awareness and caution that academic writing, although static and fixed to some extent, is a dynamic form of social interaction (Jiang, 2017) through which writers project their stance, construct disciplinary knowledge, consolidate solidarity with putative readers, and reflect their cultural or disciplinary identity.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 65%

“…Several studies have examined how writers show their stance over the last decade (e.g., Hyland, 2005Hyland, , 2012Alghazo et al, 2021;Liu et al, 2022), indicating cultural and disciplinary differences due to the tendency of writers to construct and negotiate social relations in their writing (Hyland and Tse, 2004). Some scholars discussed the use of stance markers in student writing, such as essays and reports (Crosthwaite and Jiang, 2017), graduate theses (Charles, 2006), master theses (McCambridge, 2019), and dissertation writing (Liu et al, 2022).…”

Section: Literature Review Stance-taking In Academic Writingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The conclusion section, serving as the closing section and last chance to present results and highlight the significance, and thus as an important sub-section in RAs (for example, 26 out of 31 of the RAs published in English for Specific Purposes in 2015 had separate conclusion sections), plays a big part in achieving the communicative purposes of summarizing and emphasizing the results, highlighting the contribution and providing future directions (Yang and Allison, 2003;Sheldon, 2019). However, it has received less attention in comparison with the abstract (Alghazo et al, 2021), introductions (Loi and Lim, 2013), and discussions (Li and Xu, 2020). This may be due to the classification of the conclusion as a discussion following Swales (1990) ' IMRD model.…”

Section: Research Article Conclusion Sectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“We may conclude that:” a corpus-based study of stance-taking in conclusion sections of RAs across cultures and disciplines

Deng

2023

Front. Psychol.

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Research article conclusions form an important sub-genre in the academic community. This study aims to compare the use of stance markers in English and Chinese research article conclusions and investigate how stance markers may vary in soft and hard sciences. Based on Hyland's stance model, an analysis of stance markers over 20 years was made in two corpora, which were compiled with 180 research article conclusions in each language from four disciplines. It was found that English writers and soft science writers tended to make statements more tentatively by hedges and craft their persona more explicitly through self-mentions. However, Chinese writers and hard science writers made their claims with more certainty by boosters and showed their affective attitude more frequently through attitude markers. The results reveal how writers from different cultural backgrounds construct their stances and also unveil the disciplinary differences involved in stance-taking. It is hoped that this corpus study will inspire future research on stance-taking in the conclusion section and also help cultivate writers' genre awareness.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 65%

Section: Literature Review Stance-taking In Academic Writingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Research Article Conclusion Sectionsmentioning

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“We may conclude that:” a corpus-based study of stance-taking in conclusion sections of RAs across cultures and disciplines

Deng

2023

Front. Psychol.

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“…As noted earlier, engagement as an interactional metadiscourse feature has not yet received due attention in metadiscourse research, compared to other features of stance and voice (Alghazo et al, 2021 ). Engagement has often been examined in a subsidiary manner to stance (see Hyland, 2005 ; Alghazo et al, 2021 ; Herzuah, 2018 ; Abusalim et al, 2022 ). Hyland ( 2019b ) argues that engagement “has always seemed the poor relation in discussions of interaction” (p. XI) although it is an essential feature of interaction.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Engagement strategies in English and Arabic newspaper editorials

Alghazo

Al-Anbar

Jarrah

et al. 2023

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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This study explores the use and functions of engagement strategies in English and Arabic newspaper editorials. To this end, the study analyses 80 editorials collected from two popular newspapers (40 from each): The Guardian which publishes in English and appears in the UK and Addustour which publishes in Arabic and appears in Jordan. Following Paltridge’s (2020) taxonomy, the study utilises a mixed-method approach to assess whether differences in the use of engagement strategies between the two corpora are statistically significant and to identify the functions of the strategies used in the two sets of data. The findings show that there are statistically significant differences between the two languages in the use of some engagement strategies. In particular, Arabic editorials included more reader pronouns and less personal asides than did English ones. In addition, although questioning as an engagement strategy was absent in the Arabic corpus, it was used in the English one to transmit information and circulate knowledge. The findings enrich our understanding of how the editorial genre is constructed, and how editorialists engage with their readers in the two languages.

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“…Regarding engagement-related studies in the academic field, research articles have been the main genre under scrutiny in a variety of disciplines and writing cultures (e.g. Alghazo, Salem and Alrashdan, 2021;Dontcheva-Navratilova, 2021;Lafuente-Millán, 2014;McGrath and Kuteeva, 2012;Xu and Nesi, 2019), although other genres, both oral and written or digital have also attracted researchers' attention (e.g. Carrió-Pastor and Muñiz Calderón, 2015;Jiang and Ma, 2018;Kramar, 2019;Orpin, 2019;Pascual and Mur-Dueñas, 2022;Qiu and Jiang, 2021;Sancho Guinda, 2012;Xia and Hafner, 2021;Zou and Hyland, 2020).…”

Section: Engaging Readers In Predatory Practicesmentioning

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Engaging in predatory practices: How editors persuade prospective authors

Bocanegra-Valle¹

2023

Círc. lingüíst. apl. comun.

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A number of studies have explored the main features of predatory practices that prevail in predatory academic journals and conferences. However, not much has been investigated regarding the ways predatory journal editors convey credibility and trustworthiness when addressing scholars looking for publication outlets and, more specifically, what interpersonal resources (like proximity or engagement markers) are used to persuade them. This study draws on a dataset of fifty email messages from predatory publishers collected during the past two years. It seeks to delve into the ways predatory journal editors address “scholar customers” with the aim of persuading them to submit their work. This dataset was first coded following Hyland’s models of proximity and interaction in academic texts, and then qualitatively analysed using NVivo 11 Pro. The analysis shows that (i) textual data provide direct evidence of the texts that predatory publishers send to scholars and the interpersonal dialogue they intend to build with authors in haste for publication; (ii) interactional resources abound, particularly engagement markers, which explicitly aim at building a rapport with the prospective author, and (iii) these predatory texts also contain other engagement-related elements directed to have an effect on the reader’s decision for eventual submission.

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Stance and engagement in English and Arabic research article abstracts

Cited by 26 publications

References 20 publications

“We may conclude that:” a corpus-based study of stance-taking in conclusion sections of RAs across cultures and disciplines

“We may conclude that:” a corpus-based study of stance-taking in conclusion sections of RAs across cultures and disciplines

Engagement strategies in English and Arabic newspaper editorials

Engaging in predatory practices: How editors persuade prospective authors

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