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Genre Structure and Citation

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Perspectives on the Introductory Phase of Empirical Research Articles

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Abstract

This chapter reviews the pertinent literature for this study. As the study is mainly concerned with move structure and citation features of the introductory phase of the ERA, the chapter is organized into two parts: genre analysis of RAs as a particular research genre and citation study. The first four sections (Sects. 2.1–2.4) comprise the first part: Sect. 2.1 outlines the conceptualizations of genre and related terminology such as communicative purposes, discourse community, moves, steps and rhetorical strategies, and reviews the three main approaches to genre analysis, viz., the New Rhetoric (NR) approach, the Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) approach, and the English for Specific Purposes (ESP) approach; Sect. 2.2 addresses the different types of RAs, the macro-structure and the major sections of RAs; Sects. 2.3 and 2.4 focus on the rhetorical structure of the Introduction section and other introductory parts respectively. Following these, in Sect. 2.5, a comprehensive review of literature on citation is presented, which constitutes the second important part of this chapter. The final section summarizes the preceding sections and concludes the chapter.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Merging is represented in this study with square brackets. For example, [MRD] = the blended Method, Results and Discussion section; [MR] = the coalesced Method and Results section.

  2. 2.

    It should be noted that Loi (2010) and Loi and Evans (2010) actually analyzed the same sets of data (i.e., 20 Chinese introductions and 20 English introductions in educational psychology, but interpreted the findings from different perspectives. Loi and Evans (2010) focuses more on cultural differences and philosophical values related to different rhetorical and structural styles of the introductions in two languages.

  3. 3.

    The group of writers in Huang et al. (2010) refer to the authors of the selected articles published in the international English journals in material sciences, and not all of them are necessarily NS writers of English. However, since their articles reach the international publishable level with relatively high research and writing quality and most of them are affiliated to Anglo-American institutions, this group is tentatively referred to as “the English L1 group” to parallel those in other studies of the same category.

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