Discourse Analysis of the Research Articles About Marine Environment Relating to the Adriatic Coast

Abstract

Discourse analysis of the research articles about marine environment relating to the Adriatic coast reveals a variety of discursive features about marine environmental issues. There are many papers about marine biodiversity, uniqueness, and tourist attractiveness of the highly valued marine destinations along the Adriatic coast. The discourse analysis of the articles applied in this paper was aimed at establishing language peculiarities from surface to pragmatic level. Apart from the identification of the conventional structure of the research articles in this field, the paper also ran a qualitative analysis focused on the current questions about the Adriatic coast. In this paper, the research articles about the marine environment were used as a corpus for textual analysis. Based on theoretical knowledge of the critical discourse approach and genre analysis, the paper explored the academic research texts about the Adriatic coast. Employing Swales’s moves model, the standardized surface structure of the research texts about the Adriatic coast was established. Description of data relied on the conceptual knowledge derived from the referent books about the marine environment domain. The results of the interdisciplinary approach in this paper outlined contemporary issues concerning the discourse community of the marine environment academics researching about the Adriatic coast.