چکیده:
Despite the heterogeneity of ideas regarding the definitions of genre, there are also common instances shared among scholars interested in particular aspects of the notion. Swales (1990) and Bhatia (1993) are primarily interested in the sociological and psychological aspects of genre's functioning and construction, respectively.. Swales analyzes the genre of 'article introduction', into four generic moves on the basis of the communicative intentions they serve, and Bhatia investigates the tactical aspects of their construction. The present paper, is an attempt to study the patterns of thematic development-based on Daneš(1974) proposed patterns- in such generic moves. For this purpose, 12 academic papers were analyzed for their constituent generic move structures, with respect to the thematic choices and progression inside these moves. The results indicated that each move has characteristic patterns of thematic selection and progression, which must be motivated by the global discourse topic and the communicative intention of these moves, as moves of dissimilar communicative intentions had characteristic patterns of thematic selections. In the light of the result of the experiment conducted on the teachability of generic moves, it is believed that the present study can have insightful implications for writing and reading pedagogy.
خلاصه ماشینی:
In the case of article introductions, for instance, the following strategies might be used to accomplish the communicative purposes of the each move: Move(1),establishing the research field, could be accomplished by: a) asserting the centrality of the topic b) stating current knowledge c) ascribing key characteristics Move(2), summarizing the previous research, may be realized by one or a combination of the following strategies: a) using a strong author orientation and/or b) using a weak author orientation and/or c) using subject orientation Move(3), preparing for the present research, can be carried out through a) indicating a gap(in the previous research) b) question raising c) extending a finding And finally, Move(4), introducing the present research, can be realized by: a) stating the purpose of the present research and/or b) outlining the present research Drawing on the works done in the fields of genre and text analyses in ESP, with the former emphasizing the pivotal role of the communicative purpose in shaping the formal properties of texts, and the latter stressing the centrality of themes and their ordering in organizing information in texts, the present paper seeks to establish whether the communicative purpose of a genre, namely research article introductions, influences the "method of development of the text type" with respect to its selection of themes and their patterns of progression inside the constituent rhetorical moves of this genre.