A Rhetorical Content Analysis of Moroccan Regional Agronomic Abstracts: Textual Practices of Plurilingual Science Communication

IF 1.9 1区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION Written Communication Pub Date : 2023-12-12 DOI:10.1177/07410883231205619

Alexander J. Mahmou-Werndli

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In order to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the varied ways multiple language competencies are invoked in scientific communication and publication, this study features a content analysis of a collection of English, French, and Arabic abstracts from 14 articles of Al-Awamia, a Moroccan agronomic journal. Mapping rhetorically significant differences across abstracts in different languages suggests that EN/FR abstracts are tailored to an international specialist audience and Arabic abstracts favor a domestic policymaker audience in several key ways. The textual moves made to address these different audiences are typical of those studied by scholars of science communication, and accordingly this study indicates that plurilingual textual practices in scientific writing are associated with differences in audience and stakeholders. These findings carry implications for trans/pluri/multilingually oriented scholars of scientific communication, as well as for those who prepare future researchers for the demands of publication, suggesting that the flexible use of diverse linguistic resources is important to scientific practice in a globalized world.

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摩洛哥地区农艺学摘要的修辞内容分析：多语言科学传播的文本实践

为了帮助人们更细致地了解在科学交流和出版过程中运用多种语言能力的不同方式，本研究对摩洛哥农艺期刊《Al-Awamia》的 14 篇文章中的英语、法语和阿拉伯语摘要进行了内容分析。不同语言摘要在修辞上的显著差异表明，英语/法语摘要是为国际专家受众量身定做的，而阿拉伯语摘要则在几个关键方面偏向于国内政策制定者受众。针对这些不同受众所采取的文本策略是科学传播学者所研究的典型策略，因此本研究表明，科学写作中的多语言文本策略与受众和利益相关者的差异有关。这些发现对以跨语言/多语言/多语言为导向的科学传播学者，以及为未来研究人员的出版需求做准备的人都有影响，表明灵活使用多种语言资源对全球化世界中的科学实践非常重要。

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Written Communication COMMUNICATION-

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期刊介绍： Written Communication is an international multidisciplinary journal that publishes theory and research in writing from fields including anthropology, English, education, history, journalism, linguistics, psychology, and rhetoric. Among topics of interest are the nature of writing ability; the assessment of writing; the impact of technology on writing (and the impact of writing on technology); the social and political consequences of writing and writing instruction; nonacademic writing; literacy (including workplace and emergent literacy and the effects of classroom processes on literacy development); the social construction of knowledge; the nature of writing in disciplinary and professional domains.