Negotiating academic conflict in discussion sections of doctoral dissertations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21201166 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fatemeh Esmaili (Urmia University), Esmaeel Abdollahzadeh (0000-0001-7560-7948, University of Exeter) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 905-928 |
| Publication date | 2024-11-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pragmatics and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1878-9714 • E-ISSN: 1878-9722 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/ps.22060.esm |
| OpenAlex | W4389235346 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 31 |
This study explores how doctoral students negotiated academic conflict (AC) in discussion section of their dissertations and what engagement resources they utilized to convey academic conflict. To this end, discussion chapters of 30 doctoral dissertations in Applied Linguistics (15 samples by each writer group) were analyzed using Huston’s (1991) academic conflict framework and Martin and White’s (2005) engagement system of Appraisal Theory. The functional analysis constituted discovering components of academic conflict and engagement resources in the discussions. We found that components of academic conflict determined engagement values used to convey them. The linguistic background of the authors was less of an issue in resolving conflicts. The two writer groups managed academic conflict and related engagement resources more or less similarly in different components of academic conflict. They mainly expressed their novel contribution readily and identified the flaws of previous research; however, both writer groups showed little tendency to explain controversial points. The findings have pedagogical implications for academic writing courses highlighting the importance of developing awareness of AC and resolving the conflicts
Academic writing · Appraisal theory · Conflict resolution · Negotiation · Pedagogy · Social science · Sociology · Communication in Education and Healthcare · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Psychology · Social Psychology
Disciplinary discourses
Evaluation in Text
Bringing in the Reader
Research articles in applied linguistics
Advances in Written Text Analysis
Genre identification and communicative purpose
An examination of education-based dissertation macrostructures
Engagement in doctoral dissertation discussion sections written by English native speakers
“I found it very special and interesting”
Stance and engagement in 3MT presentations
Academic conflict in Applied Linguistics research article discussions
Complexity in cultural identity
Stance and engagement
An interview-based study of the functions of citations in academic writing across two disciplines
Authority and invisibility
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |