British and Montenegrin university lecture introductions: A corpus-based study of their rhetorical structure

This study explores the rhetorical structure of university lecture introductions and its linguistic specificities. Applying genre, corpus contrastive analyses, it aims to identify which moves steps are used in English Montenegrin, as well reveal differences similarities their between two languages. Drawing upon Swalesean move approach (1981, 1990) referring models already established literature, examines academic lectures linguistics discipline taken from electronically available British corpora, a specially compiled Montenegrin lectures. The results show major difference lying more elaborate framework. It consists three – Move 1: Orienting students, 2: Setting-up framework 3: Putting topic context, compared two-move composed 2 3. Some specific also noticed composition these moves. main similarity exists presence obligatory both 3 respectively, reflecting influence an genre settings regardless language were delivered in. In addition, findings have yielded original this study.