چکیده:
The present study aimed to investigate the generic organization of research article introductions in local Iranian and international journals in English for Specific Purposes، English for General Purposes، and Discourse Analysis. Overall، 120 published articles were selected from the established journals representing the above subdisciplines. Each subdiscipline was represented by 20 local and 20 international articles. Following Swales’ (2004) new Create A Research Space (CARS) model، the researcher analyzed the articles for their specific generic patterns. Findings demonstrated that despite some consistency in the international corpus، there emerged marked differences in utilizing second and third moves in international articles. Also، intra-subdisciplinary analysis revealed divergent generic organization in EGP and DA in local and international data. Results suggested insufficient awareness of some Iranian RA writers regarding the generic structure of introduction. The findings of the study have implications for RA writers to improve their RA introductions.
خلاصه ماشینی:
com Abstract The present study aimed to investigate the generic organization of research article introductions in local Iranian and international journals in English for Specific Purposes, English for General Purposes, and Discourse Analysis.
Researchers, therefore, have examined the rhetorical structure of RAs including acknowledgements (Giannoni, 2002), abstracts (Samraj, 2005; Martin, 2003), methods (Hwa Lim, 2006), results (Brett, 1994; Williams, 1999), discussions (Holmes, 1997; Peacock, 2002) and discussions and conclusions (Ruiying & Allison, 2003).
The present study reports on an analysis of article introductions from three related subdisciplines of English for Specific Purposes (ESP), English for General Purposes (EGP), and Discourse Analysis (DA), as components of applied linguistics.
g. , Brett, 1994; Holmes, 1997; Williams, 1999; Yang & Allison, 2003), and comparatively less attention has been given to introduction, local and international, in the subdisciplines from the same parent discipline, which may form an important component of both quantitative and qualitative studies in applied linguistics, this study attempts to address the following questions: 1.
g. , EGP introductions in local and international journals); b) Inter-subdisciplinary comparison to check the moves and steps used by Iranian and non-Iranian writers in the above subdisciplines (e.
ESP and DA introductions in international articles tend to have relatively longer and more extensive citations of related background in order to establish space for their research, but in EGP this part is restricted to only a brief review of few previous works.
The insight gained from this study suggested significant subdisciplinary differences between the English research article introductions published in international journals.