The generic structures and lexico-grammaticality in English academic research papers

Valipour, Valeh; Assadi, Nader; Asl, Haniyeh Davatgari

doi:10.2989/16073614.2017.1373365

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“…Similarly, Babaii et al (2016) investigated the frequency of marked themes in research articles in mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, horticulture, and environmental sciences, concluding that marked themes are more frequent in mechanical engineering than in the three other disciplines. One final example comes from a study of research-article introductions (Valipour et al, 2017), where the results indicate that chemistry exhibits a higher proportion of marked themes than does linguistics and software engineering.…”

Section: Previous Research On Thematic Structurementioning

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Marked themes in English and Norwegian academic texts in the field of didactics

Rørvik¹,

Monsen²

2018

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Abstract:This study investigates the use of marked themes in the field of didactics. The material comprises research articles written in L1 English and Norwegian, and L2 English. The aim is to shed light on contrastive differences between Norwegian and English that may be used to inform novice writers about central textual features of academic texts within the field of didactics, and about potential transfer-related features that might give their texts a "foreign accent". The results show that there are contrastive differences in the realization of and meanings expressed by marked themes, but that these differences cause few problems for L2 writers. The study further supports findings from previous research that show the importance of text type and academic discipline for thematic structure.

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Marked themes in English and Norwegian academic texts in the field of didactics

Rørvik¹,

Monsen²

2018

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Cognitive Dominants, Language-Specific Communication and Translation Problems

Ri︠a︡bt︠s︡eva

2021

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The paper is devoted to explaining the key cognitive distinctions characteristic to translation process and its teaching. Among them are linguistic interpretation of the input text’s contents, its conceptual adaptation to the accepting culture, etc. To demonstrate them, multiple examples are given to show that translators, particularly not trained enough, often choose for basic translation dominants in the accepting culture those equivalents that are primarily purely linguistic, ignoring conceptual and cultural background of the original and the accepting culture’s notions and forms. Meanwhile, the latter help avoid such translation failures as literal / word by word translation, etc. Special attention in the paper is paid to the translation into the foreign, English, language, its contrastive culture-specific and communicative features as compared to those in the Russian language: to their cognitive dominants in communication and their cross-linguistic asymmetry and in-congruency which generate quite «natural» cross-linguistic interference in Russian-English translation. It is particularly obvious when there are extensive textual nominal ex-pressions, especially terminological, which demonstrate at present an active, extensive and productive usage in English, but present a serious problem in teaching English as a foreign language and translation into it. It is also shown that in Russian their cross-linguistic idiomatic analogues are language specific and show different patterns, but still can be adequately matched with their foreign counter-parts.

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Expert writers’ structural outlines in research papers: An inquiry into social sciences

Luo

Lim

2021

Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

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The generic structures and lexico-grammaticality in English academic research papers

Cited by 3 publications

References 10 publications

Marked themes in English and Norwegian academic texts in the field of didactics

Marked themes in English and Norwegian academic texts in the field of didactics

Cognitive Dominants, Language-Specific Communication and Translation Problems

Expert writers’ structural outlines in research papers: An inquiry into social sciences

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