Phrasal Discourse Style in Cross-Disciplinary Writing: A Comparison of Phrasal Complexity Features in the Results Sections of Research Articles

IF 0.7 4区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Circulo De Linguistica Aplicada a La Comunicacion Pub Date : 2020-07-09 DOI:10.5209/clac.70573
Muhammed Parviz, A. Jalilifar, A. Don
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The present study aimed at exploring how research article writers from two academic disciplines exploit phrasal complexity features (PCFs) to verbalize the results sections of research articles with the eventual aim of assisting advanced EFL writers with their composition strategies. To this end, following a manual search, 200 empirical research articles in the fields of Applied Linguistics and Physics were comparatively examined. Due to the low rate of success of tagging programs in identifying the occurrences of PCFs, the datasets were also manually analyzed. The results revealed that the research article writers drew upon three high-frequency phrasal complexity features, namely, pre-modifying adjectives, post-modifying prepositional phrases, and nominalizations. The study also revealed that the results sections of research articles included different amounts of exceedingly complex patterns of pre-modification, a hybrid of novel appositive structures, and great reliance on hyphenated adjectives. Overall, we believe that these findings can be used to heighten the awareness of academic writers and instructors regarding the linguistic characteristics of academic writing and of the variations of how such phrasal features of compression are constructed in different academic subjects.
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跨学科写作中的短语话语风格——研究文章结果部分短语复杂性特征的比较
本研究旨在探讨来自两个学科的研究文章作者如何利用短语复杂性特征(PCF)来表达研究文章的结果部分,最终目的是帮助高级EFL作者制定写作策略。为此,通过人工检索,对应用语言学和物理学领域的200篇实证研究文章进行了比较研究。由于标记程序在识别PCF发生方面的成功率较低,数据集也被手动分析。结果表明,研究文章作者利用了三个高频短语复杂性特征,即修饰前形容词、修饰后介词短语和名词化。研究还表明,研究文章的结果部分包括不同数量的极其复杂的前修饰模式、新颖的同位语结构的混合,以及对连字符形容词的极大依赖。总的来说,我们相信这些发现可以用来提高学术作家和教师对学术写作的语言特征的认识,以及对不同学科中如何构建这种压缩短语特征的变化的认识。
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