Abstracts in research articles play a crucial role settling the impact of academic articles. However, despite abundance on discourse, variation its linguistic features among scholars from different cultures seems to have remained untouched. This corpus linguistics study presents comparative analysis interactional metadiscourse markers 96 article abstracts written English by both Russian and Spa...

Arguably, the Moroccan academic writing stratosphere has long been understudied. Such oversight is particularly discerning given how beneficial these studies can be for L2 writers of English. To this end, using Hyland’s (2005) metadiscourse framework, current research interactional practices in a small corpus 15 applied linguistics article abstracts. These were collected from two Moroccan-based...

As an indispensable part of journal article, English abstract can promote the sharing and exchange international academic achievements. Cohesion coherence are important criteria a good abstract. Based on Halliday Hasan’s cohesion theory, this study compares 60 abstracts written by Chinese native scholars. The results show that ellipsis substitution rarely used, while reference conjunction often...

ed/indexed in Academic Search Complete, Agroforestry Abstracts, Asia Journals Online, Bangladesh Journals Online, Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS Previews, CAB Abstracts, Current Abstracts, Directory of Open Access Journals, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, Google Scholar, HINARI (WHO), International Pharmaceutical Abstracts, Open J-gate, Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index I...

This study investigates the relative power and characteristics of a set of social and epistemic terms to distinguish among disciplines of research article abstracts, using a corpus of 928,572 abstracts from 13 disciplines indexed by Web of Science in 2011. Applying the machine-learning approach to discourse epistemetrics using a sequential minimal optimization (SMO) algorithm, and a feature set...

Following Swales’s (1981) works on genre analysis, studies on different sections of Research Articles (RAs) in various languages and fields abound; however, only scant attention has been directed toward abstracts written in Persian, and in the field of literature. Moreover, claims made by Lores (2004) regarding the correspondence of two types of abstracts with different models, and by Martin (2...