Discourse, Text and genre: competing or complementary approaches?
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Discourse Studies, Academic Discourse, Genre, IntroductionAbstract
This paper discusses the possibility of building up a composite model for genre analysis in Discourse Studies. It compares the concept of genre within Sociodiscursive Interactionism (ISD, Bronckart, 1997), within Systemic-Functional Linguistics (Rose & Martin, 2012) and within Textual Linguistics (Adam, 2008), highlighting both their divergencies and proposing common approaches. The model also includes contributions from English Academic Discourse such as moves and steps from the analysis formula Create a Research Space (Swales, 1990, 2004), adapted by Bunton (2002) for PhD introductions, concepts such as lexical bundles (Biber, 2005) and textual realization devices (Coutinho & Miranda, 2009). The model is applied to texts taken from the included genre introduction in 60 research articles published between 2013 and 2022. Irrespective of the disciplinary area, analysis shows the emergence of lexical bundle patterns in the text structure, a preference for opposition linking words in a problem-solution structure and choices of persuasive adjectives applied to the research. Results suggest the advantages of combining concepts from different frameworks in genre analysis.
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