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In:Intercultural Perspectives on Research Writing
Edited by Pilar Mur-Dueñas and Jolanta Šinkūnienė
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series 18] 2018
► pp. 175–194

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Chapter 8
Hybrid rhetorical structure in English Sociology research article abstracts

The ambit of ELF and translation

 | Universidad de Zaragoza
Published online: 6 December 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/aals.18.08lor
Abstract
Research article abstracts play a significant role in our globalised scientific world, where findings are disseminated in English. This study aims to identify and analyse the rhetorical patterns which characterise English abstracts in Sociology, a discipline traditionally dominated by Anglophone writers. Three corpora will be explored and contrasted: abstracts written in English as L1, in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), and English abstracts translated from Spanish. Thirty texts will be analysed in each case. Features such as the frequency of moves and phraseology indicating rhetorical structure may illustrate the general level of hybridity that academic texts in English show internationally and can be interpreted as “innovative patterns of use”, as described in ELF literature (Jenkins, Cogo, & Dewey, 2011).
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Methodology and corpus description
  • 3.Results and discussion
  • 4.Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Appendix
  • References
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