Engaging with the reader in research articles in English: Variation across disciplines and linguacultural backgrounds
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14410%2F21%3A00118987" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14410/21:00118987 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www-sciencedirect-com.ezproxy.muni.cz/science/article/pii/S0889490621000120?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www-sciencedirect-com.ezproxy.muni.cz/science/article/pii/S0889490621000120?via%3Dihub</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.esp.2021.02.003" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.esp.2021.02.003</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Engaging with the reader in research articles in English: Variation across disciplines and linguacultural backgrounds
Original language description
This article studies engagement in English-medium research articles across two disciplines, linguistics and economics, and two linguacultural backgrounds, Anglophone and Czech, in order to explore how disciplinary and linguacultural considerations affect the choice, frequency and distribution of engagement markers in the construal of persuasive academic discourse. The contrastive analysis applying Hyland & Jiang’s (2016) modified model of engagement is carried on a corpus of 60 refereed research articles published in international and local academic journals within these disciplines and linguacultural backgrounds. The findings indicate the existence of cross-disciplinary variation as linguistics research articles employ significantly more engagement features than economics research articles. Moreover, linguistics research articles show a preference for proximity engagement markers aiming at enhancing disciplinary solidarity, while economics research articles tend to prioritize positioning engagement features directing readers towards intended understandings and anticipating alternative interpretations. Intercultural variation, which is less significant and affects the frequency of use and choice of specific engagement markers, reflects divergences in linguacultural conventions, target audiences and contexts of publication. These results indicate the potential of this doubly contrastive approach to contribute towards an understanding of rhetorical choices in academic discourse. The study can have important pedagogic applications in the training of academic writers.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA17-16195S" target="_blank" >GA17-16195S: Persuasion across English and Czech Specialized Discourses</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
English for Specific Purposes
ISSN
0889-4906
e-ISSN
1873-1937
Volume of the periodical
63
Issue of the periodical within the volume
July 2021
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
18-32
UT code for WoS article
000659173400002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85102778271