Rhetorical variation in Arabic academic discourse: Humanities versus law  

Oleh:

Fakhri, Ahmed

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 41 no. 2 (Feb. 2009), page 306-324.
Topik: Arabic rhetoric; Academic discourse; Genre analysis; Contrastive rhetoric; Legal language
Fulltext: Fakhri_Ahmed.pdf (232.2KB)

Isi artikel

The study adopts a genre analysis approach in order to investigate rhetorical variation in introductions of Arabic research articles fromthe fields of lawand humanities. Fifty introductions fromeach discipline are analyzed in terms of the kinds of research justification and reader orientation they provide. The results show that law introductions exhibit more exponents of both functions; but neither discipline has utilized challenges to previous scholarship as a means of justifying the research proposed. These findings are accounted for through cultural, sociolinguistic, and educational factors that characterize the context of production of the texts considered.

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