Genre Analysis of Oxford and Tabriz Applied Linguistics Research Article Abstracts: From Move Structure to Transitivity Analysis

Journal of English Language Pedagogy and Practice

مقاله 3، دوره 6، شماره 12، مرداد 2013، صفحه 41-59   

نوع مقاله: Research Paper

نویسندگان

Biook Behnam؛ Jafar Zamanian^*

Department of English, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran

چکیده

Following Swales’s (1981) works on genre analysis, studies on different sections of research articles in different languages and fields abound. This paper compares Applied Linguistics  research article abstracts published in Oxford University and Islamic Azad University of Tabriz in English using Swales’s (1981-1990) move structure model and Halliday’s (1994) description of transitivity processes. One hundred and forty eight English research article abstracts were analyzed at macro and micro level based on the Swales’s model (IMRD) and transitivity system. The results demonstrated that the four structural moves of Swales and transitivity processes of Halliday were evident in both abstract sets but were differently distributed. The research suggests pedagogical implications for TEFL practitioners, especially for the writing skill and for the preparing research article abstracts (RAAs).  

کلیدواژه‌ها

Genre Analysis؛ transitivity process؛ Research Articles؛ IMRD

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