Intercultural Perspectives on Research Writing.

Intro -- Intercultural Perspectives on Research Writing -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Preface: Academic writing and non-Anglophone scholars -- References -- Introduction: Intercultural rhetoric approaches to the analysis of academic genres -- Intercultural rhetoric and EAP -- Intercultural rhetoric and ELF -- Book overview -- References -- Part I. Three-fold intercultural analysis: Comparing national, L1 English and L2 English academic texts -- Chapter 1. A contrastive (English, Czech English, Czech) study of rhetorical functions of citations in Linguistics research articles -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Variation in citation practices -- 3. Data and method -- 3.1 Typology of rhetorical functions of citations -- 4. Findings and discussion -- 4.1 Citation frequency and distribution of citation types across RAs sections -- 4.2 Rhetorical functions of citations -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2. How to internationalise and empower academic research?: The role of language and academic conventions in Linguistics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Main features of the journals -- 3.2 The macro-structure of research articles -- 4. Conclusions and implications -- References -- Chapter 3. The power of English: I and we in Lithuanian, Lithuanian English and British English research writing -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Personal pronouns in research writing -- 2. Data and methods -- 3. Results and discussion -- 3.1 General frequencies of personal pronouns I/aš and we/mes and their forms -- 3.2 I/aš and its semantic and pragmatic profile -- 3.3 We/mes and its semantic and pragmatic profile -- 4. Concluding remarks -- References -- Part II. Two-fold intercultural analysis: Comparing L2 and L1 English academic texts / Anglophone writing conventions.

Chapter 4. "This dissonance": Bolstering credibility in academic abstracts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background issues on labeling nouns and the uses of this as an anaphoric determiner in academic discourse -- 2.1 Labeling nouns also known as general, signalling, shell, or metadiscursive nouns -- 2.2 This as a determiner -- 3. Corpus and methodology -- 3.1 A comparable corpus of PhD abstracts written in English by writers in a French and an English context -- 3.2 Approach and method for corpus study -- 3.3 Approach and method for case studies -- 4. Results and discussion of the corpus-based study -- 4.1 Definition and distribution of a functional typology of this as a determiner -- 4.2 Definition and distribution of a semantic typology of encapsulating this + LN -- 5. Back to the text: Gains and losses -- 5.1 Case study 1: Building an effective argumentative flow -- 5.2 Case study 2: Failing to inscribe the research project in the disciplinary field -- 5.3 Case study 3: Assessing the rhetorical impact of interpretive encapsulating this -- 5.4 Gains and losses -- 6. Final discussion and conclusion -- 6.1 Final discussion -- 6.2 Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Chapter 5. Asserting research status, values and relevance in thesis abstracts of Science and Engineering -- 1. Abstracts and promotional features -- 2. Theoretical orientation -- 3. Corpus description -- 4. Methodology -- 5. Findings -- Distribution of evaluation functions -- Evaluation functions per section in thesis abstract -- 6. Discussion and conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Chapter 6. Chinese writers of English RAs as creators of a research space in a national context: A diachronic study -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Research background -- 2.1 Defining CARS -- 2.2 Research on the CARS model of RA Introductions.

2.3 Research on identity construction in academic writing -- 3. Methodology -- 3.1 Data collection -- 3.2 Data analysis -- 4. Results of the study -- 4.1 Chinese writers' concurrent construction of the three sub-identities across different periods -- 4.2 Chinese writers' construction of the three sub-identities across different periods -- 4.3 Chinese writers' construction of the three sub-identities across different periods -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7. Conference abstracts in English: A challenge for non-Anglophone writers -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Corpus and methodology -- 2.1 Corpus -- 2.2 Methodology -- 3. Findings and discussion -- 3.1 Macrostructure of CAs -- 3.2 Selected linguistic realisations of CAs -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Part III. Intercultural analysis on the move: Exploring ELF academic texts -- Chapter 8. Hybrid rhetorical structure in English Sociology research article abstracts: The ambit of ELF and translation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology and corpus description -- 3. Results and discussion -- 4. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix A. Journals guidelines -- References -- Chapter 9. Epistemic stance and authorial presence in scientific research writing: Hedges, boosters and self-mentions across disciplines and writer groups -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Epistemic stance and authorial identity -- 3. Corpus and methods -- 4. Overall distributions of hedges, boosters and self-mentions -- 5. Disciplinary variations -- 6. Variation across IMRC divisions -- 6.1 Hedges -- 6.2 Boosters -- 6.3 Self-mentions -- 7. Discussion -- 8. Pedagogical implication -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 10. Publishing in English: ELF writers, textual voices and metadiscourse -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background: Reflexivity and intertextuality in academic discourse -- 3. Materials and methods.

4. Positive keywords: Features of unedited text -- 4.1 Overview -- 4.2 Analyse/analysed/analysis -- 4.3 Metadiscursive verbs -- 4.4 Metadiscursive nouns -- 5. Negative keywords: Features of published texts -- 6. Final remarks -- References -- Chapter 11. Not the same, but how different?: Comparing the use of reformulation markers in ELF and in ENL research articles -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Functions of reformulation markers -- 3. Corpus and methodology -- 4. Results and discussion -- 5. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Corpora -- Chapter 12. Evaluation in research article introductions in the Social Sciences written by English as a Lingua Franca and English native users -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical background -- 2.1 Evaluation -- 2.2 Research-oriented evaluation and topic-oriented evaluation -- 2.3 Move structure -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Results and discussion -- 4.1 Move analysis -- 4.2 Overal results on evaluation -- 4.3 Entities evaluated -- 4.4 Types of values -- 5. Conclusions -- Appendix -- References -- Chapter 13. Exploring ELF manuscripts: An analysis of the anticipatory it pattern with an interpersonal function -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The anticipatory it pattern in academic writing -- 3. Corpus and methods -- 4. Results and discussion -- 4.1 Overall results -- 4.2 Anticipatory it pattern as an attitudinal marker -- 4.3 Anticipatory it pattern as a hedge -- 4.4 Anticipatory it pattern as a booster -- 5. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Afterword: Intercultural rhetoric, English as a lingua franca and research writing -- References -- About the Authors -- Index.

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