Genre-based Study of Medical Research Article Introductions: A Contrastive Analysis Between Chinese and English  

Oleh:

Zhang, Yan ; Hu, Jiyue

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Asian ESP Journal vol. 6 no. 1 (2010), page 72-96.
Topik: genre; research article introduction; contrastive rhetoric; CARS model
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This study examines the genre of research article introductions across languages, with the aim to explore different rhetorical structures and linguistic features in Chinese and English medical research article introductions (RAIs). The corpus for this study consists of forty research article introductions selected from Chinese and English academic medical journals. Swales’ CARS model is employed for the analysis, which is followed by a discussion of the results from macro-structural and micro-linguistic perspectives, where significant differences between the corpora are identified. Some tentative explanations based on social and cultural perspectives are given for the different rhetorical structures in the two corpora. This study addresses variations in academic discourse between English and Chinese and reveals that academic writing exhibits culture-specific characteristics.

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