Traces of self and others in research articles. A comparative pilot study of English, French and Norwegian research articles in medicine, economics and linguistics

Breivega, Kjersti Rongen; Dahl, Trine; Fløttum, Kjersti

doi:10.1111/1473-4192.00032

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“…This result confirms the theory of Breivega, Dahl and Flottum (2002) and the statement of Mohammadi Khahan (2006) who states that the discipline is more effective than nationality considering the cultural identity issue.…”

Section: International Journal Of Linguisticssupporting

confidence: 88%

“…For example, Breivega, Dahl & Flottum (2002) conducted a study involving research articles from three disciplines -medicine, economics and linguistics -and three languages -English, French and Norwegian. They tried to find out whether cultural identities in academic writing are related primarily to nationality or whether they are related primarily to specific discipline.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Utilization of Hedging Devices by American and Iranian Researchers in the Field of Civil Engineering

Nasiri¹

2012

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The main purpose of the academic writing is to inform the other researchers from different cultures in a particular field. Because of the existed differences emanated from cultural backgrounds among the researchers who use English as their second or foreign language, the contrastive rhetoric plays crucial role in guiding the non-native writers. One of the important issues in academic writing which is considered difficult matter for non-natives who want to write for the academic purposes is hedging devices. Hedges are used to present findings cautiously along with leaving room for readers to have their own interpretations. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to find out the frequencies of different types of hedging devices in the field of Civil Engineering. To this end, 20 research articles (RAs), 10 by American writers and 10 by Iranian writers, from the leading journals were selected and their Discussion sections were selected and read to find out the existed hedging devices. All the articles have been published during 2009-2010. The time was considered because it was supposed that the time may influence the style of the writings of the authors in this field. Then, the obtained hedges were classified based on Salager-Meyer's (1994) taxonomy. The results revealed that, American writers showed their preferences to type 1, 4, and 5 while Iranians outnumbered in using type 2 and 3. Therefore, in general, the number of hedging devices by American writers was more than Iranian writers. In order to find out that the difference between the groups is significant or not chi-square procedure was used and it was found that despite some variations among the types of hedges, no statistically significant difference observed between the American and Iranian writers in terms of utilizing hedging devices in the Discussion sections of their research articles. This finding can be interpreted in a way that what is important in utilizing hedging devices as the linguistic phenomenon is the discipline influence not the nationality or cultural backgrounds of the authors. Thus, the non-native authors, i.e. Iranians, could use hedges like their native counterparts, and this ISSN 1948-5425 2012 www.macrothink.org/ijl 125 shows that the hedging devices are teachable and can be used by non-natives like natives. International Journal of Linguistics

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Section: International Journal Of Linguisticssupporting

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Utilization of Hedging Devices by American and Iranian Researchers in the Field of Civil Engineering

Nasiri¹

2012

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“…While Lewison and Hartley (2005) found that the nationality of authors did not affect title characteristics, Ball (2009) found national and regional differences in the use of question marks in article titles over a 40-year period he studied. These discrepancies might be described by the different disciplines studied, because researchers have found, analyzing the full text of articles, that disciplinary identity in medicine transcends national differences, while in ECN and linguistics the national writing tradition is more visible (Breivega et al, 2002;Dahl, 2004).…”

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The Length and Semantic Structure of Article Titles—Evolving Disciplinary Practices and Correlations with Impact

Milojević

2017

Front. Res. Metr. Anal.

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In this paper, we examine the characteristics of titles (average length, proportion of titles with subtitles, proportion of interrogatory, and indicative titles) and how they changed over a substantial period of time (half a century). We consistently analyze core literature in five diverse fields, in order to probe the usage of titles as a disciplinary identity building tool. In addition, we study whether different types of titles are used differently by authors depending on their academic age and productivity and collaboration levels, which has not been studied before. Finally, we revisit the connection between title characteristics and impact. We found that belonging to some discipline is the strongest determinant for the length of the titles and the occurrence of different forms of titles. This suggests that authors try to comply with the norms set in their fields. However, these norms are not fixed in time. Over the decades, the practices have changed, some of them quite abruptly. Individual groups of authors most often did not differ in their practices regarding the use of titles. We find that using titles posed as questions or titles stating the result do not lead to citation benefit.

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“…Conversely, the idiosyncratic features of interaction markers have made this possible for various research to explore them in different languages e.g. French-Norwegian (Breivega, 2002), Spanish-English (Valero 1996), Finish-English (Mauranan, 1993), English-Persian (Taki, 2012), English-Arabic (Sultan, 2011), English-Bulgarian (Vassileva, 2001) to highlight the variances in the application of interaction markers in research writings.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Metadiscourse in Research Writing: A Study of Native English and Pakistani Research Articles

Shafique¹,

Shahbaz²,

Hafeez³

2019

IJEL

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Metadiscourse is extremely important for structuring a relationship between writer and reader when it comes to academic writing. It is an interesting area of inquiry that is believed to play a vital role in writing persuasive discourse, based on the expectations of the people involved (Behzad & Shafique, 2018). This study deals with the comparative analysis of native English and Pakistani research articles. For this research, 100 native English and Pakistani English research articles are taken, following Hyland and Tse (2004a) model of metadiscourse. A corpus-based mixed method research approach is employed to carry out this study. All the metadiscursive devices are quantified by using corpus-based approach and then analyzed qualitatively. The results reveal that Pakistani research writers use more interactive markers whereas the interactional markers are found frequent in native English academic writers. The overall results disclose that Native research writers of English are more persuasive in their research writing as they guide the readers through text as well as involve them through different markers effectively.

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Traces of self and others in research articles. A comparative pilot study of English, French and Norwegian research articles in medicine, economics and linguistics

Cited by 58 publications

References 19 publications

Utilization of Hedging Devices by American and Iranian Researchers in the Field of Civil Engineering

Utilization of Hedging Devices by American and Iranian Researchers in the Field of Civil Engineering

The Length and Semantic Structure of Article Titles—Evolving Disciplinary Practices and Correlations with Impact

Metadiscourse in Research Writing: A Study of Native English and Pakistani Research Articles

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