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A challenge for non-Anglophone writers
  • Renata Povolná
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Intercultural Perspectives on Research Writing
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Abstract

With the growing internationalisation of all scholarship the use of English as an international lingua franca has become an important prerequisite for scholars who intend to submit their abstracts and present their research to an academic audience at international conferences. Consequently, scholars from non-Anglophone backgrounds have to master the writing of this research-process genre (Swales, 1990) in English, since otherwise they may risk being refused participation at conferences and publication in conference proceedings. This chapter analyses the textual organisation of conference abstracts (CAs) written in English with the aim of finding out whether there is intercultural variation in rhetorical moves and their linguistic realisations applied by Anglophone scholars and those from some countries where Slavonic languages are spoken.

Abstract

With the growing internationalisation of all scholarship the use of English as an international lingua franca has become an important prerequisite for scholars who intend to submit their abstracts and present their research to an academic audience at international conferences. Consequently, scholars from non-Anglophone backgrounds have to master the writing of this research-process genre (Swales, 1990) in English, since otherwise they may risk being refused participation at conferences and publication in conference proceedings. This chapter analyses the textual organisation of conference abstracts (CAs) written in English with the aim of finding out whether there is intercultural variation in rhetorical moves and their linguistic realisations applied by Anglophone scholars and those from some countries where Slavonic languages are spoken.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface vii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Part I. Three-fold intercultural analysis
  6. Chapter 1. A contrastive (English, Czech English, Czech) study of rhetorical functions of citations in Linguistics research articles 15
  7. Chapter 2. How to internationalise and empower academic research? 39
  8. Chapter 3. The power of English 59
  9. Part II. Two-fold intercultural analysis
  10. Chapter 4. “This dissonance” 83
  11. Chapter 5. Asserting research status, values and relevance in thesis abstracts of Science and Engineering 105
  12. Chapter 6. Chinese writers of English RAs as creators of a research space in a national context 129
  13. Chapter 7. Conference abstracts in English 151
  14. Part III. Intercultural analysis on the move
  15. Chapter 8. Hybrid rhetorical structure in English Sociology research article abstracts 175
  16. Chapter 9. Epistemic stance and authorial presence in scientific research writing 195
  17. Chapter 10. Publishing in English 217
  18. Chapter 11. Not the same, but how different? 237
  19. Chapter 12. Evaluation in research article introductions in the Social Sciences written by English as a lingua franca and English native users 255
  20. Chapter 13. Exploring ELF manuscripts 277
  21. Afterword 299
  22. About the Authors 303
  23. Index 307
https://doi.org/10.1075/aals.18.07pov

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface vii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Part I. Three-fold intercultural analysis
  6. Chapter 1. A contrastive (English, Czech English, Czech) study of rhetorical functions of citations in Linguistics research articles 15
  7. Chapter 2. How to internationalise and empower academic research? 39
  8. Chapter 3. The power of English 59
  9. Part II. Two-fold intercultural analysis
  10. Chapter 4. “This dissonance” 83
  11. Chapter 5. Asserting research status, values and relevance in thesis abstracts of Science and Engineering 105
  12. Chapter 6. Chinese writers of English RAs as creators of a research space in a national context 129
  13. Chapter 7. Conference abstracts in English 151
  14. Part III. Intercultural analysis on the move
  15. Chapter 8. Hybrid rhetorical structure in English Sociology research article abstracts 175
  16. Chapter 9. Epistemic stance and authorial presence in scientific research writing 195
  17. Chapter 10. Publishing in English 217
  18. Chapter 11. Not the same, but how different? 237
  19. Chapter 12. Evaluation in research article introductions in the Social Sciences written by English as a lingua franca and English native users 255
  20. Chapter 13. Exploring ELF manuscripts 277
  21. Afterword 299
  22. About the Authors 303
  23. Index 307
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