A contrastive study of the rhetorical organisation of English and Spanish PhD thesis introductions

This paper presents an analysis of the introductory sections of a corpus of 20 doctoral theses on computing written in Spanish and in English. Our aim was to ascertain whether the theses, produced within the same scientific-technological area but by authors from different cultural and linguistic bac...

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Autores: Soler Monreal, Carmen|||0000-0002-3194-2338, Carbonell Olivares, María Soledad, Gil Salom, María Luz
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
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Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/35312
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Academic writing
Computing
Contrastive rhetoric
Doctoral thesis
Genre analysis
Intercultural rhetoric
Introduction
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spelling A contrastive study of the rhetorical organisation of English and Spanish PhD thesis introductionsSoler Monreal, Carmen|||0000-0002-3194-2338Carbonell Olivares, María SoledadGil Salom, María LuzAcademic writingComputingContrastive rhetoricDoctoral thesisGenre analysisIntercultural rhetoricIntroductionFILOLOGIA INGLESAThis paper presents an analysis of the introductory sections of a corpus of 20 doctoral theses on computing written in Spanish and in English. Our aim was to ascertain whether the theses, produced within the same scientific-technological area but by authors from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds, employed the same rhetorical strategies to introduce the work presented. The analysis follows the Swalesian approach and is based on a move/step/sub-step model proposed for PhD introductions in Spanish (Carbonell-Olivares, Gil-Salom, & Soler-Monreal, 2009). The Spanish academic conventions appear to be that move 1 (M1- Establishing the Territory) and move 3 (M3- Occupying the Niche) are obligatory moves in PhD thesis introductions in Spanish, while move 2 (M2- Establishing the Niche) is optional. The structure of English thesis introductions reveals that they conform more closely to the M1-M2-M3 arrangement. Moreover, combinations of moves and patterns, cyclicity and embedding make their organisation more complex. The step analysis suggests that introductions in both languages rely mainly on the presentation of background information and the work carried out. However, the English introductions tend to stress the writer's own work, its originality and its contribution to the field of study. They also present more embedding and overlapping of steps and sub-steps than the Spanish texts. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd.ElsevierDepartamento de Lingüística AplicadaEscuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería InformáticaGrupo de Análisis de las Lenguas de Especialidad (GALE)Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politècnica de València Riunet20112011-01-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttps://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/35312reponame:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valénciainstname:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Reserva de todos los derechoshttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:riunet.upv.es:10251/353122026-06-13T07:49:27Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv A contrastive study of the rhetorical organisation of English and Spanish PhD thesis introductions
title A contrastive study of the rhetorical organisation of English and Spanish PhD thesis introductions
spellingShingle A contrastive study of the rhetorical organisation of English and Spanish PhD thesis introductions
Soler Monreal, Carmen|||0000-0002-3194-2338
Academic writing
Computing
Contrastive rhetoric
Doctoral thesis
Genre analysis
Intercultural rhetoric
Introduction
FILOLOGIA INGLESA
title_short A contrastive study of the rhetorical organisation of English and Spanish PhD thesis introductions
title_full A contrastive study of the rhetorical organisation of English and Spanish PhD thesis introductions
title_fullStr A contrastive study of the rhetorical organisation of English and Spanish PhD thesis introductions
title_full_unstemmed A contrastive study of the rhetorical organisation of English and Spanish PhD thesis introductions
title_sort A contrastive study of the rhetorical organisation of English and Spanish PhD thesis introductions
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Soler Monreal, Carmen|||0000-0002-3194-2338
Carbonell Olivares, María Soledad
Gil Salom, María Luz
author Soler Monreal, Carmen|||0000-0002-3194-2338
author_facet Soler Monreal, Carmen|||0000-0002-3194-2338
Carbonell Olivares, María Soledad
Gil Salom, María Luz
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Gil Salom, María Luz
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Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática
Grupo de Análisis de las Lenguas de Especialidad (GALE)
Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politècnica de València Riunet
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Academic writing
Computing
Contrastive rhetoric
Doctoral thesis
Genre analysis
Intercultural rhetoric
Introduction
FILOLOGIA INGLESA
topic Academic writing
Computing
Contrastive rhetoric
Doctoral thesis
Genre analysis
Intercultural rhetoric
Introduction
FILOLOGIA INGLESA
description This paper presents an analysis of the introductory sections of a corpus of 20 doctoral theses on computing written in Spanish and in English. Our aim was to ascertain whether the theses, produced within the same scientific-technological area but by authors from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds, employed the same rhetorical strategies to introduce the work presented. The analysis follows the Swalesian approach and is based on a move/step/sub-step model proposed for PhD introductions in Spanish (Carbonell-Olivares, Gil-Salom, & Soler-Monreal, 2009). The Spanish academic conventions appear to be that move 1 (M1- Establishing the Territory) and move 3 (M3- Occupying the Niche) are obligatory moves in PhD thesis introductions in Spanish, while move 2 (M2- Establishing the Niche) is optional. The structure of English thesis introductions reveals that they conform more closely to the M1-M2-M3 arrangement. Moreover, combinations of moves and patterns, cyclicity and embedding make their organisation more complex. The step analysis suggests that introductions in both languages rely mainly on the presentation of background information and the work carried out. However, the English introductions tend to stress the writer's own work, its originality and its contribution to the field of study. They also present more embedding and overlapping of steps and sub-steps than the Spanish texts. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd.
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