Genres, styles and discourse communities in global communicative competition
The case of the Franco-American ‘Aids War’ (1983-1987)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5966571 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fethi Helal (0000-0003-1259-9551, University of Jendouba, Tunisia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 47-64 |
| Publication date | 2014-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-4456 • E-ISSN: 1461-7080 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1461445613496352 |
| OpenAlex | W2129094963 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 33 |
This article compares the rhetorical strategies employed by American and French scientists in the research article introductions published by both research teams during the so-called ‘AIDS War’ (1983-1987). The controversy concerned priority rights for the discovery of the AIDS virus. Using Swales’s (1990) CARS model as a comparative template, the results indicated that while the Americans proceeded with a deductive, bold and highly elaborated pattern of rhetorical presentation, the French opted for an inductive, more nuanced and unelaborated rhetoric which prioritized the communication of scientific content at the expense of the writers’ attitude and personal perspective. The observed variations can be accounted for on the basis of perceptions of what constitutes appropriate academic style during the debate, audience design, power relationships and the sociopolitics of knowledge production in American and French scientific cultures. The article concludes by exploring the implications of these results for the use of English in the resolution of global research problems across the intercultural continuum
Epistemology · Linguistics · Media studies · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · History · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Translation Studies and Practices
Language and Science
Disciplinary discourses
Research Genres
Globalization and Language Teaching
The Great Devonian Controversy
“Nondiscursive” Requirements in Academic Publishing, Material Resources of Periphery Scholars, and the Politics of Knowledge Production
Lingua Franca English, Multilingual Communities, and Language Acquisition
The structure of scientific revolutions
Handbook of Discourse Analysis
What CDA Is About – A Summary of Its History, Important Concepts and Its Developments1
The bittersweet rhetoric of controversiality in nineteenth- and twentieth-century French and English medical literature
Closing A Conceptual Gap
Argument and 17th-Century Science
Genre Analysis
Rhetoric and the Aids virus hunt
Opening Pandora's box
Linguistic, Cultural, and Subcultural Issues in Contrastive Discoure Analysis
Cultural Thought Patterns in Inter-cultural Education
Cultural differences in the organization of academic texts
Academic discourse and intellectual styles
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| Citations per year | 0.33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |