Tracking Interpersonality in Research Article Abstract

A Diachronic Study of Dynamic Nature of Genre

Bibliographic Data

ID21707608
AuthorsArezou Bakhtiari (0000-0002-9626-5585, University of Tehran), Ali Akbar Khomeijani Farahani (0000-0002-8202-3921, University of Tehran)
Year2020
Volume20
Issue1
Pages56-69
Publication date2020-03-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Language and Literature (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1410-5691 • E-ISSN: 2580-5878
PublisherSanata Dharma University (PUBLISHER • ID)
DOI10.24071/joll.v20i1.2332
OpenAlexW3012743447
LanguageEN
References cited19

This study reports on interpersonality in a diachronic-contrastive investigation in Research Article (RA) abstracts. The study analyzed a corpus of 180 RA abstracts from two journals of Psychological Bulletin and Personality and Individual Differences over the last three decades. This paper uses The results of this study revealed that authors of these journals adopted different stance and positioning over time in their writing. In addition, the findings of this paper did not corroborate previous research findings that RA abstracts exhibit high number of boosters. In relation to writing pedagogy, the results of this study can help the scholars to frame their papers in order to publish them in English-medium journals

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