چکیده:
Much has been written about the complex textual mechanisms which lie under thestructure of academic genre. However, we are still far from a vivid taxonomy offactors that lead to the development of research articles (RAs) as the manifestationof the given genre. Rhetorical structure and thematicity are two of these mainparameters. The present study investigates the interaction of the thematic structuresand the rhetorical moves of RAs published in the international journals (IJs) andthose of the Iranian local journals (ILJs). To this end, a corpus of 120 RAdiscussion sections of sub-disciplines of Applied Linguistics were analyzed usingKanoksilapatham’s (2007) move analytical model, thematic option (TO) modelproposed by Halliday (1985), and the Daneš’ (1974) revised model of thematicprogression (TP) in McCabe (1999). The results indicated a significant relationshipbetween the theme types and the generic moves on one hand, and distribution ofthe theme progressions and rhetorical structures on the other hand. The choice oftheme type and thematic progression was found, however, to be, in some cases,influenced by locality of the journals. The findings of the study call for aconsideration of a more complex rhetorical profile of RAs than what has to datebeen assumed.
خلاصه ماشینی:
The Interaction between Rhetorical Structure and Thematisation in Academic Research Articles Reza Khany * Assistant professor, Ilam University, Ilam, Iran & Ali Mansoori Nejad MA in TEFL, Ilam University, Ilam, Iran Abstract Much has been written about the complex textual mechanisms which lie under thestructure of academic genre.
, Ilam , Iran Keywords: Theme; Rheme; Move; Thematic analysis; Rhetorical organization;Discussion section; International and Local journals Introduction Within the academic community, scientific research articles (RAs) have special status.
The acquisition of rhetorical structure and functional grammar (Halliday, 1985) can be very helpful for academicians to achieve the wanted goal which is, of course, the publication of their RAs. Genre analysis that identifies thematic components and organization within the rhetorical moves has a great deal to offer for the study of research articles.
An increasing number of investigations on thematisation are concerned with RAs produced by writers and the way RAs are developed through the knowledge of the theme/rheme principles (Belmonte and McCabe-Hidalgo, 1998; Sa-ard, Suwanbenjakul, and Thanasootornrerk, 2001; Thomas, 1999; Francis, 1989; Holzinger, 1996; Li & liu, 2005; Nwogu & Bloor, 1991; Hawes & Thomas, 1995; Berry, 1995).
The last few years have witnessed a large number of studies done in the area of the generic moves in the academic texts (Paltridge, 2002; Ridley, 2000; Samraj, 2002; Gupta, 1995; Zhen-ye, 2008; Hyon, 1996; Fakhri, 2004; Habibie, 2004; Flowerdew and Dudley-Evan, 2002; Connor and Mauranen, 2001; Gledhill, 2000; Deng and She Qiongze, 2005).