چکیده:
The present study explored the rhetorical representation of authorial identity signaled by interactive/interactional metadiscourse strategies and integral/non-integral citation patterns in international and Iranian local research article discussion sections. The study also explored variation in metadiscourse and citation resources across three subdisciplines of Language Testing, English Language Teaching, and Discourse Analysis. To this end, a representative sample of 60 discussion sections of articles published in three prestigious international journals and three well-accredited Iranian local journals was collected. The comparisons revealed that Iranian local articles used a greater number of interactive metadiscourse strategies, whereas international articles tended to employ more interactional metadiscourse markers. In the interaction between authorial identity and citation perspectives, it was demonstrated that Iranian local articles employed more integral citation resources, while their international counterparts utilized more non-integral citation patterns. Furthermore, the findings showed subdisciplinary variation in the use of interactional metadiscourse strategies and non-integral citation patterns in international RAs. This can be attributed to their distinctive communicative purposes, target readership, scope of investigation, and final research products. The study concludes with some implications for post-graduate students to equip themselves with both macro-level generic and micro-level discoursal properties required for writing research article discussion sections, and, accordingly manifesting their authorial identity.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"These differences can be attributed to some other factors elaborated on in the paper Furthermore, the findings showed sub-disciplinary variation in the use of interactional meta-discourse strategies and non-integral citation patterns in international RAs. This can be attributed to their distinctive communicative purposes, target readership, scope of investigation, and final research products.
In spite of many studies separately conducted on meta-discourse and citation resources in RAs, the simultaneous examination of meta-discourse markers and citation patterns employed for the purpose of signaling the role of authors and keeping track of their communicative traces in the discussion sections of international and Iranian local RAs of Applied Linguistics has escaped the attention of discourse analysts.
3 Sub-disciplinary variation In order to find the answer to the other two proposed research questions, four hypotheses were specified and four chi-square tests were run to explore the sub-disciplinary variation of authorial identity on the basis of met- discourse strategies and citation patterns in international Testing, English Language Teaching, and Discourse Analysis RA discussion sections.
4. 3 Sub-disciplinary variation With relatively similar patterns of authorial identity in Language Testing, Language Teaching Research, and Discourse Studies, interactive meta- discourse strategies were more consistently used by English Language Teaching RAs. The higher frequency of transitions, frame markers, endophoric markers, and code glosses in English Language Teaching RAs may illuminate the sub-disciplinary tendencies of coherently organizing the discoursal propositions and adequately convincing the target readers to acknowledge the significance and effectiveness of a specific methodological or skills-based instruction."