چکیده:
In order to develop an understanding of the rhetorical conventions in the
Persian language and to find out the metadiscursive cultural norms of Iranian
writers in their native language writings, it is necessary to probe into the
implicit rhetorical features of academic writing which has so far eluded a
comprehensive systematic characterization. Metadiscourse marking, which
is supposed to be one of the important rhetorical aspects in the writing
process, is shown to be susceptible to cultural mentalities. Therefore, in this
study an attempt is made to explore interactive and interactional
metadiscourse strategies use by the Persian writers in the genre of research
articles (RAs). For the purpose of this study, a corpus of 60 Persian research
articles from social and natural sciences was selected for a close qualitative
manual analysis. It appeared that, though globally similar in many ways,
different IMRD sections of RAs which follow different cognitive genre
types use interactive and interactional strategies differently. Also, the
conventions of the two sciences appeared to be weirdly different. The
findings are analyzed and implications are drawn for the teachers and
learners of writing research articles in English for Academic Purposes (EAP)
classes. It is argued that without such characterizations it would be very
difficult to gather an idea of the current rhetorical trend in Persian language
so that a comparison can be made with any target language conventions in
teaching and learning foreign languages.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"Metadiscourse strategies in Persian research articles; Implications for teaching writing English articles Tohid Siami Assistant professor, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili Reza Abdi Assistant professor, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili Abstract In order to develop an understanding of the rhetorical conventions in the Persian language and to find out the metadiscursive cultural norms of Iranian writers in their native language writings, it is necessary to probe into the implicit rhetorical features of academic writing which has so far eluded a comprehensive systematic characterization.
However, despite a wide interest in such analyses, no effort is made to characterize different sections of the popular social genre of RA which allegedly have different cognitive genre (see Bruce, 2003) in Persian RAs. Mainly motivated by the need to find out how a native culture could develop independently of the global community and also to provide a better metadiscursive image of the conventions followed by Persian writers in writing Persian articles, it was thought beneficial to carry out a genre and section-specific characterization of Persian academic writing produced by Iranian scholars.
The Distribution of Metadiscourse Markers in Different Parts of Research Articles across Sciences (View the image of this page) (View the image of this page) As seen in Table 2, interactive metadiscourse is used over four times more than the interactional one in the corpus, which shows that the interactive resources are invaluable tools for Iranian writers in producing Persian RAs. The interactive strategies are employed for a variety of purposes including signposting the flow of arguments, framing, referring to other sections, citing and glossing."