Newman, John G. Ed. ; Dossena, Marina. Ed. ; Schmied, Josef. Guest ed. ; Bondi, Marina. Guest ed. ; Dontcheva-Navratilova, Olga. Guest ed. ; Perez-Llantada, Carmen. Guest ed.
Keywords:research article ; rhetorical structure ; diachronic analysis ; reader reference ; writer reference
Abstract:
This paper studies the development of academic writing conventions in Englishmedium research articles (RAs) by Czech linguists published in two national journals (Brno Studies in English and Linguistica Pragensia) over the last 30 years. Drawing on the genre analysis framework, the study investigates possible changes in the titles, rhetorical structure, statement of aims, research questions and hypotheses, and personal and locational metadiscourse markers for writer and reader reference in a small corpus of 20 RAs. The comparative diachronic analysis aims to identify continuity and change in the evolution of academic writing conventions and the factors influencing them. The findings indicate that Czech English-medium RAs have gradually adopted a more transparent rhetorical structure close to the IMRAD model, their titles have gained in informativeness, and researcher visibility has been enhanced due to an increase in locational and exclusive personal self-mention. These tendencies point to hybridity in the present-day English-medium discourse of Czech linguists which stems from the adaptation of diverging academic writing traditions to meet the publication needs of the authors.
Contents
7 Josef Schmied, Marina Bondi, Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova, Carmen Pérez-Llantada, Language variation and change in academic writing: Recent trends through globalisation and digitalisation
25 Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova, Academic writing conventions in Czech English-medium linguistics journals: Continuity and change over the last 30 years
55 Marina Bondi, Jessica Jane Nocella, Academic writing conventions in English-medium linguistics journals in Italy: Continuity and change over the last 30 years
89 Marina Ivanova, German English-medium linguistics journal abstracts over the last 30 years: Quantitative and qualitative structural developments
115 Giuliana Diani, Research article abstracts in English and Italian: Generic and cross-linguistic variation over the last 20 years
143 Krystyna Warchał, Concluding sections over 30 years of research writing: The case of a Polish scholar
169 Josef Schmied, Marina Ivanova, English MA theses at a German university before and after the Bologna reform: Comparing global rhetorical structures and stance in Linguistics and Cultural Studies
197 Tereza Guziurová, “The aim of this paper is…”: Frame markers in English as a lingua franca of academic writing
223 Enrique Lafuente Millán, European research project websites and corporate websites: Patterns of evaluation and genre evolution Varia
251 Cecilia Lazzeretti, Language, narrative and structure of story telling in museum communication: A diachronic approach
277 Gloria Mambelli, “It is a long road from sorrow to joy”: Metaphors of happiness and sadness in Late Modern English private correspondence
301 Giulia Rovelli, Towards a historical corpus of Canadian English letters and diaries
325 Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Acquiring epistolary literacy in nineteenth-century New England Reviews
357 Michael Skiba, Participial Prepositions and Conjunctions in the History of English, Munich: utzverlag, 2021, 235 pp. (Reviewed by Rafał Molencki, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
Jan Kochanowski University Press
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