Pithy Persuasion
Engagement in 3 Minute Thesis Presentations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22870513 |
|---|---|
| Authors | K Hyland (0000-0002-4727-8355, University of East Anglia, corresponding author), Hang Zou (0000-0002-1451-5262, East China Normal University) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 21-44 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-22 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Applied Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0142-6001 • E-ISSN: 1477-450X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/applin/amab017 |
| OpenAlex | W3154962525 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 31 |
Academic communication crucially involves readers, or hearers, buying into an argument. The audience has to be hooked, involved and led to a desired conclusion, and this is perhaps no more urgent than in a Three Minute Thesis presentation (3MT). In this competitive environment, doctoral students present their research using only one static slide in just 180 seconds. Speakers are advised to tell a ‘story’ but they must still draw on familiar ways of ensuring their hearers can make connections in their presentation and be willing to accept their argument. In this paper we apply Hyland (2005a) engagement framework to a corpus of 120 3MT presentations to explore how academics establish interpersonal rapport with non-specialist audiences. We find engagement to be a useful analytical tool in this monologic speech context and discover disciplinary preferences in the use of engagement features. Our findings have important implications for postgraduate speaking and for EAP teachers preparing students to orally present their research.
Argument (complex analysis) · Context (archaeology) · Discipline · Interpersonal communication · Persuasion · Presentation (obstetrics) · Social science · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology · Social Psychology
A cross-disciplinary study of authorial identity construction through ‘reader engagement’ in the introduction of research articles
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Multimodal practices of research groups in Twitter
Words that matter
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Scholarly discourse
Science Dissemination in Instagram reels
Engagement in health representatives’ speeches of Covid-19 pandemic in Saudi Arabia and the UK
Metadiscourse in Three Minute Thesis Presentations
Metadiscourse in postgraduate thesis supervisions at UK and Taiwanese universities
Changing the world in three minutes? A duoethnographic provocation of 3MT in neoliberal Australian universities
Disciplinary discourses
The Language of Evaluation
Three minute thesis presentations as an academic genre
Bringing in the Reader
“We must conclude that…”
Stance and engagement in pure mathematics research articles
Longman grammar of spoken and written English
Directives
“Think about how fascinating this is”
Three Minute Thesis presentations
Is There a Visual Dominance in Political Communication? How Verbal, Visual, and Vocal Communication Shape Viewers' Impressions of Political Candidates
The rhetoric of conference presentation introductions
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Stance and engagement
Politeness
| Citations per year | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |