Genre Analysis of Applied linguistics Research Article Introductions Published in International and Iranian Local Journals

Journal of Teaching English Lnaguage Studies

مقاله 3، دوره 6، شماره 3، خرداد 2018، صفحه 48-64   

نویسندگان

Seyed Foad Ebrahimi^{* 1}؛ Abdollah Mohsenzadeh²

¹Department of English, Shadegan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shadegan, Iran.

²EnglishDepartment, Shadegan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shadegan, Iran

چکیده

This study aimed to investigate the realizations of verbs’ syntactic and semantic features in
moves of applied linguistics research article introductions published in international and
Iranian local journals. To this end, a data of 30 research article introductions (15 published in
Iranian local journals and 15 in high impact international journals) was selected. The research
article introductions were analyzed for the move structures using Swales’s CARS (1990)
model. The research article introductions were also analyzed for tense, aspect, voice
(Syntactic features) and semantic meaning of verbs. The results indicated that simple present
and active voice were the predominant tense and voice in both sets of research article
introductions. Concerning the semantic meaning of verbs, the results showed that three kinds
of semantic meanings of verbs were used more frequently. They are namely mental, activity,
and existence or relationship verbs. This study could have implications for novice non-native
writers in the Applied Linguistics.

کلیدواژه‌ها

Research article introduction؛ local and international journals؛ genre؛ Applied Linguistics

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