A Contrastive Investigation of Intertextuality in Research Articles Authored by Iranian vs. English Writers in Applied Linguistics
Subject Areas : آموزش زبان انگلیسیداود کوهی 1 * , نسرین ملانقی زاده 2
1 - Department of English, Maragheh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Maragheh, Iran
2 - Department of English, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
Keywords: intertextuality, Research Article, Applied Linguistics,
Abstract :
Academic discourse enables others' voices in a text to be realized through conventionalized citational patterns. However, form amongst a variety of factors, one thing which may influence the way others' voices are textualized is writers' affiliations to different cultures. Following this assumption, the present contrastive study attempted to explore manifest intertextual constructions across the academic articles written by English and Iranian writers in the field of applied linguistics in a ten-year period (2000-2010). The typology of citation elaborated by Swales (1990), and subcategorized by Thompson and Tribble (2001) and Thompson (2005) were explored as the analytical framework of this study. The analysis demonstrated the dominance of different strategies of citations in the two corpora. The findings of this research may be helpful for novice writers and researchers in applied linguistics.
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