Abstract
The importance of an abstract in a research article has turned the focus of linguistics on Genre analysis of abstract articles. Taking into consideration this immensely researched topic, this paper aims to investigate the macro and micro structures in the Linguistics and Literature Abstracts. In the previous researches, this very comparison is never addressed by the researches, hence the present research aims to fill this gap. The corpus contained 40 abstracts, 20 of linguistics and 20 of literature from International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature (IJALEL). The macro analysis was made according to the Create a Research Space (CARS) model by Swales (2004) and Ant mover software was used to analyze the corpus, while the micro analysis followed Swales and Feak (2009). The results showed that there is no significant difference between the linguistics and literature abstracts at the macro level while the differences lie at the micro level. This study will be beneficial for the novice researchers as it provides a framework of analyzing two interconnected disciplines.
Highlights
English language is the language of the world today and is used as lingua franca in all the fields including research and technology
The results showed that there is no significant difference between the linguistics and literature abstracts at the macro level while the differences lie at the micro level
The analysis of the 20 Linguistics abstracts revealed that 9 out of the 20 abstracts started from the I3s1 Announcing present research purposively/descriptively move and 8 abstracts started from the I1s2 Making topic generalisations move while 3 of the abstracts started from I1s1 Claiming centrality move
Summary
English language is the language of the world today and is used as lingua franca in all the fields including research and technology. The knowledge of English allows professionals and researchers “to get access to the latest information in their fields and to effectively communicate with their colleagues throughout the world”. Various researches in the English language are published in the journals around the world and research articles (RA) have become the centre of importance in academia. Through RAs, “people in the scientific community can keep up with the latest developments in their own fields and may build on the present research and make their own contributions to their fields” In the research and academic writing, genre analysis holds significant importance. Comes a question that what is genre? Swales (1990) was the one who gave an extensive definition of the genre after studying it in various aspects, according to him:
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