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A Study of a Specialised American Police Discourse Genre: Probable Cause Affidavits
Languages, 2023 This paper focuses on the analysis of a specialised American police discourse genre and is based on a corpus of 115 probable cause affidavits. A probable cause affidavit is a sworn statement written by American police officers to state that there is ...
Audrey Cartron
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Informal LogicArabic argumentation is often described as relying on repetition and coordination in contrast to Western argumentation, which emphasizes syllogism, proof, and dialectic.
Abdul Gabbar Mohamed Al-Sharafi +4 more
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Genre as Social Action (1984), Revisited 30 Years Later (2014)
Letras & Letras, 2015 The article “Genre as Social Action” was published 30 years ago and has been taken up in numerous conversations about genre in the time since then. This paper reviews the main ideas in that article, the ways those ideas were taken up in North American ...
Carolyn R. Miller
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RHETORICAL MOVES IN MEDICAL RESEARCH ARTICLES: SOME GENRE IMPLICATIONS IN A CROSS-LINGUISTIC STUDY
International Conference on Technics, Technologies and Education, 2018 The medical research article (MRA) has been at the core of debate with reference to all its aspects for over thirty years now. Ever since scholars, such as Swales, Nwogo and more recently Fryer and Davies, have delved into the organization and discourse setup of this scientific genre, the argument for and against the importance of Rhetorical Moves has
Ivaylo Dagnev +2 more
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Ampersand, 2023 While many genre studies explore move-step structure of research articles in various fields, there are relatively few in the electronic engineering (EE) discipline, let alone the comparison of research article (RA) move-step structures among three writer
Sutong Gao, Issra Pramoolsook
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Combinatorial patterns in medical case reports: an English-Spanish contrastive analysis
JoSTrans: The Journal of Specialised Translation, 2009 There have been several studies related to the description of phraseological and rhetorical structures in specific types of medical prose genres. However, to our knowledge, these studies have never focused on combinatorial patterns and have never been ...
Beatriz Mendez-Cendon
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Journal of Language and EducationBackground: Rhetorical moves have long been studied in several disciplinary texts, including research articles and their part-genres. A solid base of literature has emerged in this respect, informing current writing pedagogy for novice writers. However,
Priya Mathew, Lee Mccallum
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The institutional genre email in building a socio-rhetorical discourse community
Entrepalavras: Revista de Linguística do Departamento de Letras Vernáculas da Universidade Federal do Ceará, 2016 In this study we analyze the institutional e-mail, one of the most produtive genres in digital communications. The definitions of gender and socio-rhetorical discourse community are based on the studies of Swales (2008) and Freedman (1999).
Marco Aurelio Silva SOUZA +1 more
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A Rhetorical Move Analysis of TEFL Thesis Abstracts: The Case of Allameh Tabataba’i University [PDF]
Issues in Language Teaching, 2016 in every research paper has always been functioning as an attention-grabber which can encourage readers to keep reading the research or to dissuade it. Although abstracts are believed to play an important role in distributing the research findings, few ...
Amir Zand-Moghadam, hossein mihami
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ANGLO-AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION IN THE CONTEXT OF ACADEMIC DISCOURSE GENRES
Novìtnâ Osvìta, 2018 The article presents a critical review of research works dedicated to Anglo-American scientific communication debates on academic discourse genres. This study shows that Standard English represented by British English and American English dominates in ...
Svitlana Shcherbyna
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