Abstract:
The present contrastive study reports a research on a genre analysis of the introduction
section of dentistry research articles between English and Persian languages. To this
end, 70 introduction sections written in English and Persian and published in wellknown
leading journals were examined and analyzed using Swales’ (2004) classification
of moves and steps in introduction sections. Frequency and Chi-square test were used to
examine the differences between the two corpora of introduction sections. The analysis
of the introduction sections shows that Move 1 step 1 “claiming centrality”, Move 2 step
1a “counter-claiming” and Move 3.1 “Announcing present research descriptively and/or
purposively” are the most frequently used moves in English and Persian corpora.
Moreover, the findings show that the majority of research articles across the two
corpora opened with Move 1.1 “Claiming centrality”. Also, results revealed that there
was a statistically significant difference in certain moves between English and Persian
introduction sections.
Machine summary:
<H1>Comparative Generic Analysis of Introductions of English and Persian Dentistry Research Articles</H1> <H3>Shahrzad Rahimi</H3> Department of Foreign Language, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran rahimi.
ir Abstract The present contrastive study reports a research on a genre analysis of the introduction section of dentistry research articles between English and Persian languages.
g. Cortes, 2013; Lin &amp; Evans, 2012; Martin &amp; Pérez, 2014; Omidi &amp; Farnia, 2016; Swales 1981, 1990; Swales &amp; Najjar 1987), result sections (Thompson, 1993), discussion sections (Atai &amp; Fallah, 2004; Basturkmen, 2012; Ershadi &amp; Farnia, 2015; Flowerdew, 2015; Hopkins &amp; Dudley-Evans, 1988; Kim Loi, Evans, Lim &amp; Akkakoson, 2016) and conclusion sections (Lin &amp; Evans, 2012; Tabatabaei &amp; Azimi, 2015) and some studied the whole sections (Stoller &amp; Robinson, 2013; Tessuto, 2015).
The purpose of the study is shedding light on the generic features of Iranian Dentistry research articles through analyzing RA moves from the perspective of ESP move analysis based on CARS model presented by Swales (2004) and also comparing the result of move analysis of Dentistry research articles written by Iranian authors in Persian with those of native speakers of English.
2. Are there any significant differences between Rhetorical moves that constitute the generic structure of introduction sections of Dentistry research articles written by native speakers of English and native speakers of Persian?
Move 1 step 2 &quot;making generalization of increasing specifity&quot; was one of the dominant s in Persian as well as English corpus and it is classified as an obligatory move for classifying the frequency of each move in two groups of Dentistry RAs. The results showed that there was no significant difference in applying this move by English and Persian writers.