(Ebook) Abstracts in Academic Discourse Variation and Change 1st edition by Marina Bondi, Rosa Lorés Sanz 3034314833 9783034314831

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Author:   Marina Bondi, Rosa Lorés Sanz 

The book brings together a rich variety of perspectives on abstracts as an academic genre. Drawing on genre analysis and corpus linguistics, the studies collected here combine attention to generic structure with emphasis on language variation and change, thus offering a multi-perspective view on a genre that is becoming one of the most important in present-day research communication. The chapters are organized into three sections, each one offering distinct but sometimes combined perspectives on the exploration of this academic genre. The first section looks at variation across cultures through studies comparing English with Spanish, Italian and German, while also including considerations on variation across genders or the native/non-native divide. The second section centres on variation across disciplines and includes a wide range of studies exploring disciplinary identities and communities, as well as different degrees of centrality in the disciplinary community. The third and final section explores language and genre change by looking at how authorial voice and metadiscourse have changed over the past few decades under the influence of different media and different stakeholders.

Abstracts in Academic Discourse: Variation and Change 1st table of contents:

Section 1: Variation across Cultures
Evidential and Epistemic Devices in English and Spanish Medical, Computing and Legal Scientific Abstracts: A Contrastive Study: Francisco Alonso-Almeida
1. Introduction
2. Data and method
3. Evidentiality and epistemic modality: a description of a terminological indeterminacy
4. Results and discussion of findings
4.1. Lexical devices
4.2. Modal verbs
5. Conclusions
Abstracts: Cross-linguistic, Disciplinary and Intercultural Perspectives: Ines-A. Busch-Lauer
1. Relevance, definition and classification of abstracts
1.1. The abstract as a genre of particular relevance in the academia
1.2. The categories of abstracts
1.3. Abstracts from a linguistic perspective
2. Disciplinary, cross-linguistic and intercultural aspects
2.1. Disciplinary aspects
2.1.1. Length of abstracts
2.1.2. Structure of abstracts in the disciplines
2.1.3. Samples – Linguistics, Medicine and Technology
Linguistic abstracts
Medical Abstracts
Technology abstract - nanotechnology
2.2. Cross-linguistic and intercultural aspects
2.3. Metadiscourse and author involvement
3. Writing abstracts
3.1. General remarks and textbooks
3.2. Experience from teaching the genre abstract to students
4. Conclusion
Source text material
On English and Italian Research Article Abstracts: Genre Variation Across Cultures: Giuliana Diani
1. Introduction
2. Materials and methods
3. Move analysis in English and Italian linguistics RA abstracts: An overview
4. Detailed analysis of moves in English and Italian linguistics RA abstracts: cross-cultural comparison
4.1. The ‘Introduction’ move
4.2. The ‘Purpose’ move
4.3. The ‘Methodology’ move
4.4. The ‘Results’ move
4.5. The ‘Conclusion’ move
5. Conclusion
Lost (and Gained) in Translation: A Contrastive (English/Spanish) Analysis of Rhetorical and Lexicogrammatical Patterns in Sociology RA Abstracts: Rosa Lorés Sanz
1. Introduction. Research article abstracts in the globalized world of scientific communication
2. Methodology and corpus description
3. Results and discussion
3.1. Rhetorical structure of Sociology RA abstracts as reflected in the three (linguistic) contexts of analysis
3.2. Lexicogrammatical realizations in the Objectives move in Sociology RA abstracts: a look into typicality
4. Conclusions
Gender and Academicity: Insights from Research Article Abstracts: Andrzej Łyda / Krystyna Warchał
1. Introduction
2. Gender and communication in the academia
3. Academic lexis in abstracts of linguistics research papers
3.1. The abstract: a generic view
3.2. Material studied and procedure
3.3. Results
4. Concluding remarks
Section 2: Variation Across Disciplines
Influence of Collocational Variations on Making the PhD Abstract an Effective “Would-be Insider” Self-promotional Tool: Geneviève Bordet
1. Introduction
1.1. Abstracts as a genre in today’s scientific publishing
1.2. Abstract, genre, text and moves
1.3. Abstracts, genre, text and collocations
2. Aims of the study
3. Corpus selection
4. Methodology
4.1. Identification of the moves structure and of the “collocational chains”
4.1.1. All texts are marked for rhetoric moves
4.1.2. All texts are marked for “collocational chains”
4.2. Analysis of the “collocational chains” and their rhetorical distribution
4.2.1. At sub-corpus level
4.2.2. At text level
4.3. Interpretation of the data collected at sub-corpus and text level
5. Pivotal terms and collocational variation: four case studies
5.1. Case study 1: Materials science L1
5.1.1. Nature and role of the collocations’ variations across the rhetorical structure at text level
5.1.2. Frequency analysis of pivotal terms at text and sub-corpus level
5.1.3. Distributional analysis at sub-corpus and text level
5.2. Case study 2: Didactics of mathematics L1
5.2.1. Nature and role of the collocations’ variations across the rhetorical structure at text level
5.2.2. Frequency analysis of pivotal terms at sub-corpus level
5.2.3. Distributional analysis at sub-corpus level
5.3. Case study 3: collocational variation in a text taken from the Materials science L2 sub-corpus
5.4. Case study 4: collocational variation in a text taken from of Didactics of mathematics L2
6. From text to corpus and back
6.1. The moves structure
6.2. Collocational chain formation
6.2.1. Choice and use of general terms
6.2.2. Choice and use of specialized terms
6.3. Collocational chain pattern
7. Comparative analysis
8. Conclusion
Variation Across Disciplines. The Case of Applied Linguistics and Medicine: Silvia Cavalieri
1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
3. Results
3.1. Differences in the move structure between MED and AL abstracts
3.2. Differences in style
3.3. Lexical patterns of framing verbs
4. Conclusions
A Genre-oriented Analysis of Research Article Abstracts in Law and Business Journals: Anna-Maria Hatzitheodorou
1. Introduction: the genre of the research article abstract
2. The study
2.1. The corpus
2.2. Methodology
2.2.1. Frameworks of analysis
2.2.2. The proposed framework for the analysis of abstracts
3. Results
3.1. Quantitative results
3.2. Qualitative analysis
3.2.1. Abstract from The Total Quality Management journal
3.2.1.1. Macro-structural analysis: major moves
3.2.1.2. Micro-structural analysis: linguistic realizations of moves
3.2.2. Abstract from the European Law Journal
3.2.2.1. Macro-structural analysis: major moves
3.2.2.2. Micro-structural analysis: linguistic realizations of moves
3.2.3. Abstract from the Child and Family Law Quarterly
4. Discussion
Appendices
Appendix 1. Moves in research article abstracts of law journals.
Appendix 2. Moves in research article abstracts of business journals.
Appendix 3. Number of sub-moves and percentages of occurrence in the legal journals.
Appendix 4. Number of sub-moves and percentages of occurrence in the business journals.
Research Article Abstracts as Domain-specific Epistemological Indicators: A Corpus-based Study: Michele Sala
1. Introduction
2. Material and methodology
3. Results
3.1. Attribution
3.2. Knowledge thematization
4. Discussion
5. Conclusion
Abstract Quality in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Papers: A Structural and Cross-Generic Analysis: Françoise Salager-Meyer / María Ángeles Alcaraz Ariza / Beverly A. Lewin
1. Introduction
2. Corpus and methods
2.1. CAM Journal selection and corpus size
2.2. Guidelines/Instructions for authors (first objective)
2.3. Journal requirement and actual publication (second objective)
3. Results and discussion
3.1. Journal guideline analysis
3.2. Some inconsistencies found in guidelines
3.3. Published paper abstracts
3.3.1. Total number of published structured abstracts and compliance with abstract structure guidelines (Table 5)
3.3.2. Favored abstract pattern (Table 6)
4. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Section 3: Language and Genre Change: A Diachronic Perspective
Changing Voices: Authorial Voice in Abstracts: Marina Bondi
1. Introduction
2. Materials and methods: focus on framing
2.1. Corpus description
2.2. Methods
3. Voice markers: variation and change
3.1. An overview
3.2. Self-mention: First person markers
3.3. Locational self-mention
3.4. Personal vs. locational self-mentions in framework sequences
3.5. Markers of stance and argument
4. Discussion and conclusion
Shifting Metadiscourse: Looking for Diachrony in the Abstract Genre: Paul Gillaerts
1. Introduction and corpus
1.1. Corpus
1.2. The metadiscourse model (Hyland 2005)
2. Metadiscourse: methodological issues
2.1. Discourse or metadiscourse?
2.2. Double coding
2.3. Distinguishing between metadiscourse markers
3. Analysis
3.1. MD density
3.2. The evolution in MD markers
3.3. Positions of the metadiscourse
4. Conclusions
Development of Academic Journal Abstracts in Relation to the Demands of Stakeholders: Akiko Okamura / Philip Shaw
1. Introduction
2. Different approaches to the rhetorical moves in academic journal abstracts
2.1. Standards
2.2. Journals
2.3. Information science
2.4. The discourse-analytic tradition.
3. Evaluative language and discourse in abstracts
4. Data and Method
4.1. Data
4.2. Method
4.2.1. Moves analysis
4.2.2. Corpus analysis
5. Findings
5.1. Length
5.2. Analysis of moves
5.3. Linguistic features
5.3.1. Self-mention words (e.g. I, we, my, our, the author(s), the researcher(s), this paper)
5.3.2. Proposition-evaluating verbs
5.3.3. Use of nouns
5.4. On-line presentation of abstracts in 2010
6. Discussion
6.1. Disciplinary difference
6.2. Standardization
6.3. Promotional discourse
7. Conclusion

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