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Academic Discourse of Mechanical Engineering: A corpus-based study into rhetorical conventions of research articles [Hardback]

(University of Danang), (University of Auckland), (University of Danang)
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  • Sērija : Studies in Corpus Linguistics 107
  • Izdošanas datums: 03-Apr-2023
  • Izdevniecība: John Benjamins Publishing Co
  • ISBN-10: 9027212988
  • ISBN-13: 9789027212986
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  • Formāts: Hardback, 320 pages, weight: 735 g
  • Sērija : Studies in Corpus Linguistics 107
  • Izdošanas datums: 03-Apr-2023
  • Izdevniecība: John Benjamins Publishing Co
  • ISBN-10: 9027212988
  • ISBN-13: 9789027212986
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"This volume examines rhetorical conventions employed in mechanical engineering research to understand the knowledge-making principles of the discipline, as well as their expression within the research article. In particular, the study analyses the organisational pattern of mechanical engineering research articles using Swales's conceptualisation of moves and steps. In addition, the research identifies the phraseology associated with specific moves and steps. The study draws on a corpus of 120 mechanicalengineering research articles, equally distributed across two sub-disciplines (mechanical systems and thermal-fluids engineering), three research traditions (experimental, theoretical and mixed methods), and two publication periods (2002-2006 and 2012-2016). It adopts an integrated methodology, intertwining various approaches and perspectives including corpus linguistics, move analysis, discourse analysis and interviews to address two main strands of research enquiry: (i) What are the properties of the rhetorical structures in terms of range, frequency, and length for each section of mechanical engineering research articles? (ii) What effect does sub-discipline, research tradition and publication date have on the rhetorical structure of research articles?"--

This volume examines rhetorical conventions employed in mechanical engineering research to understand the knowledge-making principles of the discipline, as well as their expression within the research article. In particular, the study analyses the organisational patterns of mechanical engineering research articles using Swales’s conceptualisation of moves and steps. In addition, the research identifies the phraseology associated with specific moves and steps. The study draws on a corpus of 120 mechanical engineering research articles, equally distributed across two sub-disciplines (mechanical systems and thermal-fluids engineering), three research traditions (experimental, theoretical and mixed methods), and two publication periods (2002–2006 and 2012–2016). It adopts an integrated methodology, intertwining various approaches and perspectives including corpus linguistics, move analysis, discourse analysis and interviews to address two main strands of research enquiry: (i) What are the properties of the rhetorical structures in terms of range, frequency, and length for each section of mechanical engineering research articles? (ii) What effect does sub-discipline, research tradition and publication date have on the rhetorical structure of research articles?
List of figures
ix
List of tables
xi
Chapter 1 Introduction
1(6)
1.1 Rationale
1(1)
1.2 Aims and objectives
2(2)
1.3 Organisation of the book
4(3)
Chapter 2 Theoretical frameworks
7(28)
Introduction
7(1)
2.1 Move analysis
7(13)
2.1.1 Swales's approach to move analysis and its applications
7(6)
2.1.2 Section boundary issues
13(1)
2.1.3 Move identification issues
14(4)
2.1.4 Move/step phenomena
18(2)
2.2 Phraseology
20(5)
2.2.1 The distributional approach to phraseology
20(1)
2.2.2 Terminology
20(1)
2.2.3 Methodology and formal characteristics
21(1)
2.2.4 Structures
22(1)
2.2.5 Functions
23(1)
2.2.6 Phraseology and rhetorical functions
24(1)
2.3 Select studies in rhetorical structures and linguistic realisations
25(2)
2.4 Rhetorical structures and their properties
27(1)
2.5 Linguistic realisations of rhetorical structures
27(2)
2.6 Select studies into intra-disciplinary variation
29(6)
Chapter 3 Mechanical engineering: Its nature, the informants and the corpus
35(16)
Introduction
35(1)
3.1 The nature of mechanical engineering
35(5)
3.1.1 Mechanical engineering and its sub-disciplines
35(2)
3.1.2 Research methods in mechanical engineering
37(2)
3.1.3 Epistemological and sociological properties of mechanical engineering
39(1)
3.2 The role of mechanical engineering informants
40(2)
3.3 The corpus
42(9)
3.3.1 Construction of the present corpus
42(7)
3.3.2 Characteristics of the corpus
49(2)
Chapter 4 Methodology
51(26)
Introduction
51(1)
4.1 Move analysis
51(14)
4.1.1 Move analysis approach
51(1)
4.1.2 Move analysis procedure
52(8)
4.1.3 Data processing
60(2)
4.1.4 Further file preparation
62(2)
4.1.5 Data analysis
64(1)
4.2 Phraseology
65(7)
4.2.1 Identification of n-grams
66(1)
4.2.2 Manual check
67(1)
4.2.3 Classification
68(4)
4.2.4 Data analysis
72(1)
4.3 Variation
72(5)
4.3.1 Quantitative analyses
72(1)
4.3.2 Qualitative analyses
73(2)
4.3.3 How variation is accounted for
75(2)
Chapter 5 Rhetorical structures of mechanical engineering research articles
77(86)
Introduction
77(1)
5.1 Prototypical framework of communicative functions in the mechanical engineering articles
77(9)
5.2 Properties of the framework: The range, length, frequency, embedding, sequence and cycle
86(68)
5.2.1 The introduction section
86(12)
5.2.2 The methods section
98(18)
5.2.3 The results-discussion section
116(25)
5.2.4 The conclusion section
141(8)
5.2.5 The `other functions' category
149(5)
5.3 Structural properties
154(9)
5.3.1 Communicative functions and epistemology
154(3)
5.3.2 Complexity in the realisation of communicative categories
157(1)
5.3.3 Co-occurrence patterns of the rhetorical functions
158(2)
5.3.4 Logical presentation
160(1)
5.3.5 Cognitive orientation of the rhetorical structures
161(2)
Chapter 6 The phraseological profile of mechanical engineering research articles
163(42)
Introduction
163(1)
6.1 Structures of the n-grams
163(9)
6.2 Functions of the n-grams
172(17)
6.2.1 Research-oriented phrases
173(4)
6.2.2 Text-oriented phrases
177(10)
6.2.3 Participant-oriented category
187(2)
6.3 Phraseological properties
189(13)
6.3.1 Correspondence between structures and functions
189(3)
6.3.2 Phraseology and epistemology
192(4)
6.3.3 The phraseological realisations of the macro-structure and rhetorical structures
196(6)
6.4 Cohesion
202(3)
Chapter 7 Rhetorical variation within the mechanical engineering discipline
205(32)
Introduction
205(1)
7.1 Results of quantitative analyses
205(5)
7.2 Intra-disciplinary variation
210(27)
7.2.1 Variation on the sub-disciplinary level (mechanical systems and thermal-fluids engineering)
211(10)
7.2.2 Variation on the research tradition level (experimental, theoretical and mixed)
221(5)
7.2.3 Variation on the publication time level (2002-2006 and 2012-2016)
226(8)
7.2.4 Summary
234(3)
Chapter 8 Conclusions and implications
237(10)
Introduction
237(1)
8.1 Summary of principal findings
237(4)
8.2 Contributions
241(2)
8.3 Implications
243(4)
8.3.1 Theoretical implications
244(1)
8.3.2 Pedagogical implications
244(3)
Appendices
247(56)
Appendix A Range, frequency, and length of communicative functions across the sub-corpora
247(21)
Appendix B Results from statistical tests performed on moves and steps
268(18)
Appendix C Results of quantitative analyses
286(1)
The Introduction Section
286(2)
The Methods Section
288(6)
The Results-Discussion Section
294(5)
The Conclusion Section
299(2)
The `Other Functions' Category
301(2)
References 303(12)
Index 315