A Corpus-Based Genre Analysis Study of Structural Move, Citation, Reporting Verbs and First Person Pronouns Practices in Master Dissertation Introductory Section of Language Sciences Students at University of Constantine 1

Guendouz Naima

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A Corpus-Based Genre Analysis Study of Structural Move, Citation, Reporting Verbs and First Person Pronouns Practices in Master Dissertation Introductory Section of Language Sciences Students at University of Constantine 1

Authors:

Guendouz Naima

Publisher:

Université de Saida, Dr. Moulay Tahar

Journal:

أطراس Vol.3 Issue 1, pp.58-86

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

3/2022

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001557964

pISSN:

2992-1376

Keywords:

Abstract:

 Genre analysis offers a space to analyze generic features such as rhetorical moves, reporting
verbs, first person pronouns, and citation that facilitate the writing of academic genres and
help to realize writers’ communicative purposes. This study concerned itself with the
investigation of the rhetorical organization of Master dissertation introductory sections using
the Move Analysis method to Genre Analysis named Creating-A Research- Space (CARS)
Modelproposed by Swales (2004). In addition, it explored how and for what purposes the
aforementioned features were used. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were employed
for the two levels of examining the data. Data analysis was based on a corpus of 17
introduction sections randomly selected from 80 Master dissertations in the field of Language
Sciences. Having analyzed the data, move-step analysis revealed irregularity and randomness
in the execution of the first two moves, and limitation in the set of steps used for expressing
some functions in the last move than those proposed in CARS Model. Regarding the second
analysis, the study indicated a very limited understanding of the range of functions offered by
linguistic features and the roles they play to strengthen academic texts. We suggest these
findings to add to the ever-evolving knowledge of how writing academic texts can be
understood as having predictable and expected structures as well as functional significance for
how they are interpreted.

Article Details

A Corpus-Based Genre Analysis Study of Structural Move, Citation, Reporting Verbs and First Person Pronouns Practices in Master Dissertation Introductory Section of Language Sciences Students at University of Constantine 1

Authors:

Guendouz Naima

Publisher:

Université de Saida, Dr. Moulay Tahar

Journal:

أطراس Vol.3 Issue 1, pp.58-86

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

3/2022

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001557964

pISSN:

2992-1376

Citation

first person pronouns

reporting verbs

rhetorical move structure

Issues

Article Details

A Corpus-Based Genre Analysis Study of Structural Move, Citation, Reporting Verbs and First Person Pronouns Practices in Master Dissertation Introductory Section of Language Sciences Students at University of Constantine 1

Authors: Guendouz Naima

Publisher: Université de Saida, Dr. Moulay Tahar

Journal: أطراس Vol.3 Issue 1, pp.58-86

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 3/2022

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2001557964

pISSN: 2992-1376

Citation

first person pronouns

reporting verbs

rhetorical move structure

Issues

Authors:

Guendouz Naima

Publisher:

Université de Saida, Dr. Moulay Tahar

Journal:

أطراس Vol.3 Issue 1, pp.58-86

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

3/2022

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001557964

pISSN:

2992-1376