Civil engineering research article Introductions: Textual structure and linguistic characterization  

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Kanoksilapatham, Budsaba

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Asian ESP Journal vol. 7 no. 2 (2011), page 55-84.
Topik: structural organization; linguistic features; Introductions; genre analysis; civil engineering
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This study reports on the examination of the Introductions of research articles in civil engineering in English. Specifically, this study has the objectives of 1) identifying the structural organization of the Introductions in terms of moves and steps, and 2) capturing linguistic features that are commonly used in each move and step. A dataset of civil engineering research articles was compiled to represent the high quality journals in the field. Subsequently, the dataset was analyzed by using Swales’ genre analysis model (2004) to segment the Introduction texts into sub-units called ‘moves’ and ‘steps,’ respectively, according to their communicative functions. Finally, text segments representing each move and step were scrutinized to capture a typical set of linguistic features used to perform a given communicative function. While the two-tiered analysis reveals unique features of the language of civil engineering Introduction discourse, this study elucidates the proclivities of the civil engineering discourse community in constructing its research articles. Pedagogically, the description of both the structure and the linguistic levels contributes to a better understanding of how research article Introductions are constructed in Civil engineering.

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