during recent decades publishing articles in academic journals has become a worldwide urge for all members of academia. there is, however, a widespread belief according to which more value is given to the articles published in internationally-recognized, high standard journals. an issue raised in this regard is whether the articles published in highly prestigious journals are remarkably differe...

This study identified the use of evaluative ‘that’ stance embedded in rhetorical move structures applied linguistics research articles discussion sections written English and published international Thai journals. The aimed to investigate uses for observing practices both data was gathered from 80 articles. moves were analyzed. Occurrences counted within move-step. results revealed that journal...