A Genre Analysis of Popularization Articles on Autism in Science Daily

Abstract

espanolEste articulo analiza el genero de los articulos de divulgacion sobre autismo publicados por la revista Science Daily. El objetivo de esta investigacion es definir este genero y describir su estructura, lenguaje y las caracteristicas mas comunes. El analisis incluye 50 muestras de textos siguiendo el modelo de Casan-Pitarch (2016), este basado en Bhatia (2004) y Swales (1990). Los resultados sugieren que existe una estructura comun entre los textos de este genero y tambien hay algunas formas de lenguaje que aparecen en la mayoria de los textos, como la longitud, los contenidos, la morfologia y el uso de pronombres y verbos. En conclusion, despues de analizar los resultados obtenidos de nuestro corpus, se han sugerido una serie de patrones que definen la estructura y las formas de lenguaje mas comunes dentro del genero de articulos de divulgacion publicados por Science Daily que tratan el tema del autismo. EnglishThis paper analyzes the genre of popularization article discussing autism published by the magazine Science Daily. The objective of this research is to define this genre and describe its structure, language and most common features. The method applied involved the analysis of 50 samples of texts following the model proposed by Casan-Pitarch (2016), and based on Bhatia (2004) and Swales (1990). Results suggest that there is a usual common structure among the texts of this genre and there are also some language forms that occur in most of the texts such as length, moves and steps, morphology, and the use of pronouns and verbs. In conclusion, after analyzing the results obtained from our corpus, some patterns have been suggested in order to define the most common structure and language forms within the genre of popularization articles published by Science Daily that discuss the topic of autism.