Generic Structures and Linguistic Features of TESOL Master’s Thesis Acknowledgements Written by Vietnamese Postgraduates

Nguyen, Thi Thuy Loan

doi:10.17576/3l-2017-2302-03

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“…Narrative, a text whose social function is to entertain its readers, is composed of three-part generic structure, i.e., orientation, complication, and resolution (Rosa et al, 2008). As the first part of a narrative, just like acknowledgment in writing theses and dissertations (Nguyen, 2017), orientation plays a very important role in attracting readers to read the text completely; in other words, it can be used as a measure of successful narrative writing. Orientation provides certain impressions that would attract the readers' interest in reading the whole text.…”

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Thematic characteristics of the orientation part of the English version of Hikayat Deli text

Nurlela

Sofyan

Ganie

2021

SiELE

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As the first part of a narrative text, orientation should be able to attract the readers’ attention; therefore, it must be well organized. From the Systemic Functional Linguistics point of view, a well-organized text can be confirmed through its textual metafunction realized in theme and rheme. In addition to confirming a good organization of the clauses, theme-rheme interactions would make the text interesting. This paper aims at describing the thematic characteristics of the orientation of the English version of Hikayat Deli text (the translated text of Hikayat Deli). This study employed the data derived from the orientation part of the English version of Hikayat Deli text which was analyzed using content analysis. The results of data analysis showed that: (1) unmarked themes dominated the use of theme in the orientation part of the English version of Hikayat Deli text, (2) the story characters (participants) were used most frequently as the clause themes, and (3) conjunctions and conjunctives (textual themes) were the elements of multiple themes most frequently used in the orientation part of the English version of Hikayat Deli text. It is concluded that the choice of theme elements helps in constructing a well-organized orientation and in facilitating the easy understanding to readers of what the rest of the text is about.

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Thematic characteristics of the orientation part of the English version of Hikayat Deli text

Nurlela

Sofyan

Ganie

2021

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“…Several studies have shed light on the rhetorical structure of acknowledgements in academic texts, particularly the ones taken from theses and dissertation as well as the patterns and communicative functions of conveying gratitude in these types of texts (e.g., Al-Ali, 2010;Hyland, 2003Hyland, , 2004Hyland & Tse, 2004;Giannoni, 2002;Nguyen, 2017). However, to the best knowledge of the researchers, far too little attention has been paid to understand the generic structure of PhD dissertation acknowledgements in particular in the Turkish context.…”

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“…However, to the best knowledge of the researchers, far too little attention has been paid to understand the generic structure of PhD dissertation acknowledgements in particular in the Turkish context. Hence, the present study intends to contribute to this line of research, a scholarly endeavour that has been called for by a number of researchers in the field of genre analysis (e.g., Hyland, 20003, 2004;Giannoni, 2002;Al-Ali, 2010;Nguyen, 2017). To this end, in the light of the contentbased framework proposed by Hyland and Tse (2004), the main objective of this research is to explore the rhetorical choices and possible socio-pragmatic motives appearing in the acknowledgement sections of dissertations based on an English corpus of 136 PhD dissertations written by native speakers of American English and Turkish in three fields (i.e., Linguistics, Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching).…”

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A Contrastive Study on the Generic Structure and Socio-pragmatic Proclivities in Acknowledgements

Toprak¹,

Aksoyalp²

2021

Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry

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The present study aimed to investigate the rhetorical organization of acknowledgements accompanying Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) dissertations written in English by native speakers of English and Turkish, and gain insights into the underlying socio-pragmatic proclivities. To this end, the macro-textual analysis of 136 PhD dissertations was conducted in light of Hyland and Tse's (2004) coding scheme. The findings revealed that more than half of PhD dissertation acknowledgements in both corpora consisted of only thanking move while the most commonly used step was thanking for academic assistance, followed by thanking for moral support.Moreover, the findings of the study also revealed that the acknowledgement section in PhD dissertations goes beyond being merely a part of a given dissertation and reflects social and cultural characteristics as well. The findings were discussed, and the implications were made.

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A Contrastive Study of Lexical Bundles Expressing Gratitude in Dissertation Acknowledgments Produced by Chinese and American PhD Students of Linguistics

Bao,

Liu

2024

Sage Open

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This study compared the five-word lexical bundles (LBs) expressing gratitude in acknowledgments of dissertations written by Chinese and American PhD students of linguistics. Two corpora were built: (1) The Chinese University Dissertation Acknowledgments Collection (CUC) which contained 700 acknowledgments with a total of 300,686 tokens, and (2) the American University Dissertation Acknowledgments Collection (AUC) which contained 700 acknowledgments with a total of 493,045 tokens. We then retrieved five-word LBs, of which LBs expressing gratitude in CUC and AUC were identified, categorized, and compared with respect to frequency, forms and structures. Major findings were: (1) the Chinese students used a substantially greater number of gratitude LBs than the American students, (2) the two groups used considerably different gratitude LBs, and (3) the two groups mainly relied on verb phrase-based LBs to express gratitude, but the Chinese students used a larger proportion of noun phrase- yet a smaller proportion of verb phrase-based items than the American students, and (4) the two groups used dissimilar structures and words to construct gratitude LBs. These findings enrich our knowledge of linguistic patterns in dissertation acknowledgments as a unique genre of academic prose, and provide corpus-based learning materials for students tasked with properly expressing gratitude in their theses or dissertations.

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Generic Structures and Linguistic Features of TESOL Master’s Thesis Acknowledgements Written by Vietnamese Postgraduates

Cited by 4 publications

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Thematic characteristics of the orientation part of the English version of Hikayat Deli text

Thematic characteristics of the orientation part of the English version of Hikayat Deli text

A Contrastive Study on the Generic Structure and Socio-pragmatic Proclivities in Acknowledgements

A Contrastive Study of Lexical Bundles Expressing Gratitude in Dissertation Acknowledgments Produced by Chinese and American PhD Students of Linguistics

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