چکیده:
Medical discourse has recently attracted much scholarly attention. However، few studies have concentrated on both the overall rhetorical structure of the research article (RA) and the specific lexicogrammatical features of the texts، particularly English-Persian contrastive studies on medical RAs. Relying on Nwogu’s (1997) framework، the present study aimed at providing a macroanalysis of the Introduction sections of 3 groups of texts، namely medical RAs written and published in international English journals، those written in English by Iranian writers and published in Iran، and those written and published in Persian in Iran. Results of the quantitative and qualitative analyses revealed that the Introduction sections of the 3 groups are similar regarding their move frequency and occurrence، but the realization of these 3 moves in terms of metadiscourse markers was radically different in these 2 languages، although the identified metadiscourse markers were not move-specific. Findings could be of help to Iranian scholars active in publishing English journals.
خلاصه ماشینی:
However, few studies have concentrated on both the overall rhetorical structure of the research article (RA) and the specific lexicogrammatical features of the texts, particularly English-Persian contrastive studies on medical RAs. Relying on Nwogu's (1997) framework, the present study aimed at providing a macroanalysis of the Introduction sections of 3 groups of texts, namely medical RAs written and published in international English journals, those written in English by Iranian writers and published in Iran, and those written and published in Persian in Iran.
Indeed, there are also those that have tended to concentrate on specific lexicogrammatical features of texts, such as tense/voice (Heslot, 1982, as cited in Swales, 1990), modality (Adams Smith, 1984; Yang, Zheng, & Ge, 2015), theme (Gosden, 1992; Williams, 2009), citations (Hyland, 1999; Kulkarni, Aziz, Shams, & Busse, 2011; Thompson & Tribble, 2001), processes (MacDonald, 2002), and personals (Tarone, Dwyer, Gillette, & Vincent, 1998), to name a few (for a recent review on mapping and describing the characteristics of various medical discourse practices, see Gotti & Salager-Meyer, 2006).
Specifically, relying on the framework introduced by Nwogu (1997), the present study was an attempt to provide a macroanalysis of the Introduction sections of three groups of texts, namely medical RAs written in English by native Iranian writers and published in Iran (henceforth, EIMRAs), medical RAs written in English and published in English journals of English-speaking countries (henceforth, EEMRAs), and medical RAs written in Persian and published in Persian medical journals in Iran (henceforth, PIMRAs).