خلاصه ماشینی:
Generic Analysis of Thesis and Dissertation Abstracts: Variation across Cultures Mohammad Hasan Tahririan University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran All Reza JailMar Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, Iran Abstract Genre analysis, as concerned with the study of how language is used within a particular setting, or by a particular discourse community, has been in limelight quite recently.
Despite its recency in language teaching and language learning, the study of genre has been captivating the attention of several researchers, and this has led to the creation of a host of literature in genre analysis (Kress, 1982; Bakhtin, 1986; Fennel, Herndl and Miller, 1987; Swales, 1990; Nwogu; 1997; Holmes, 1997; Biria and Tahririan, 1997; Tarone, Dwyer, Gillettte and Icke, 1998; Giannoni, 2002; Johns and Swales, 2002; Santos, 2002).
Furthermore, work on contrastive rhetoric has been concerned with contrastive study and generic analysis of texts written in two or more languages (Taylor and Chen, 1991; Canagarajah, 2000; Martin Martin, 2003), Such studies reveal little about possible differences that may exist in the abstracts written in English by researchers from different first language backgrounds for their discourse community and possibly for publication in international journals.
CONCLUSION AND IMPLICATIONS The rationale behind the present study was to examine and analyze the move and rhetorical structures used in thesis and dissertation abstracts by researchers in applied linguistics and language teaching in an attempt to find out whether the researcher truly represent a discourse community.