Abstract:The present paper starts out by assuming that, despite a relative uniformity of research articles (RAs) imposed by the requirements of the genre, there will be significant intercultural variation in the rhetorical preferences of national cultures. Its aim is to find evidence for or against this assumption. To do so, it focuses on one micro-level feature of text rhetoric, the use of causal metatext (or text about text) in orienting readers in the interpretation of cause-effect intersentential relations (CEISRs)… Show more
This study seeks to investigate the use of interactive and interactional metadiscoursal features in two disciplines, applied linguistics and engineering. The analysis is based on a corpus of eight research articles from the engineering discipline and eight from applied linguistics. The selected corpus was analyzed through the model suggested by Hyland (2005). Results of the study showed that both disciplines used interactive and interactional features in their research articles. In both groups, writers used an interactive metadiscourse more than an interactional one. Also, there were significant differences on the overall frequency of metadiscourse features as well as on the particular occurrence of some categories in interactive and interactional features.
This study seeks to investigate the use of interactive and interactional metadiscoursal features in two disciplines, applied linguistics and engineering. The analysis is based on a corpus of eight research articles from the engineering discipline and eight from applied linguistics. The selected corpus was analyzed through the model suggested by Hyland (2005). Results of the study showed that both disciplines used interactive and interactional features in their research articles. In both groups, writers used an interactive metadiscourse more than an interactional one. Also, there were significant differences on the overall frequency of metadiscourse features as well as on the particular occurrence of some categories in interactive and interactional features.
“…However, as example (2) shows, causal metatext can be textually realised by other rhetorical strategies that are not necessarily connectives (see Moreno 1997Moreno , 1998). Notice too that in (2) the subordinator because is the element of the causal expression (or metatext) that plausibly has more responsibility in the generation of the causal inference.…”
Many recent task-based textbooks on academic writing include at least one unit which aims at teaching how to write a cause-and/or-effect analytical essay. Most of these units introduce tasks which focus on how to express causal relations. The present paper claims that, for these focus-on-form tasks to be useful for upper-intermediate to advanced EAP learners and adequate from a descriptive point of view, they should be based on comprehensive descriptions of this aspect of discourse as it behaves in the genre intended to be learned. The aim of the study is to show how adequate the language descriptions used in recent textbooks of this kind are to illustrate causal metatext in view of recent theoretical perspectives. The study compares the accounts of causal metatext given by a sample of 11 textbooks on academic writing to the results obtained from analysing the actual expression of 283 causal coherence relations drawn from a sample of 30 cause-and/or-effect essays. The results reveal that the textbook accounts examined often provide a narrow picture of how this area of language works in this specific subgenre. The paper suggests how these applied descriptions could be improved to offer a more adequate and presumably more helpful illustration of causal metatext in this subgenre. It also offers some clues as to how causal metatext could be introduced to the targeted students through an awareness-raising process.
“…Es un hecho probado que los textos están influidos por los de otras comunidades lingüísticas (Véase Graddol, 1997Graddol, , 2006, y algunos estilos de escritura en español se aproximan a los patrones discursivos ingleses (Moreno, 1997;Albeola, 2002;Trujillo, 2002). Esto sucede especialmente con aquellos más recientes, surgidos en las últimas clac 57/2014, 113-136. sanchez jimenez: especialidad 130 décadas por las necesidades específicas de comunicación que se le planteaban a algunos grupos sociales, y que importan modelos o técnicas foráneos cuando no existen en la propia lengua.…”
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ResumenLa escritura evoluciona con la sociedad y el texto lo hace dentro de cada comunidad discursiva de forma específica. Las disciplinas que se han ocupado de analizar los textos escritos se hacen eco de estos cambios y explican cuáles son las adaptaciones que siguen en esta transformación. En el presente artículo se parte de la concepción del texto desde los inicios del Análisis del Discurso para observar cómo este concepto ha evolucionado dentro de cada comunidad disciplinaria de mano de los distintos cambios que se han venido produciendo en la sociedad durante las últimas décadas.Palabras clave: análisis textual, fines específicos sanchez jimenez: especialidad 114 Abstract Evolution and development of language for specific purposes texts.Writing volves in society and so do kinds of text in a discourse community in specific ways. The disciplines involved in the analysis of these written texts follow these changes and explain these adjustments. This article reviews the idea of texts when discourse analysis began. Its objective is to look at how this concept has evolved within each discourse community through the several changes that have occurred in the society during the last few decades.
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