Abstract
Though acknowledgements have been neglected in writing dissertations by Korean master and doctoral students, they are obligatory by native speakers. The purpose of this study was to investigate a contrastive study of doctoral dissertation acknowledgements by English native speakers, non-native speakers (Korean) who studied in USA and non-native speakers(Korean) who studied in Korea. To this end, the same number of acknowledgements were selected. The model used in this study was Hyland(2004) model. The results showed that there are some significant differences in the length of the text, rhetorical moves, frequency of occurrence, individuals acknowledged, etc. More important was to find a new move which native speakers do not use in acknowledgements from Korean writers.
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