MOYETTA DANIELA
Artículos
Título:
The discussion section of English and Spanish research articles in psychology: A contrastive study.
Autor/es:
MOYETTA, DANIELA
Revista:
ESP Today. Journal of English for Specific Purposes at the Terciary Level
Editorial:
The Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade, the main publisher, the Faculty of Philology, the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering, University of Belgrade, and the Serbian Association for the Study of English (SASE)
Referencias:
Lugar: Belgrado; Año: 2016 vol. 4 p. 87 - 87
Resumen:
ince the appearance of Swales? (1990) CARS model to describe the rhetoricalorganization of research articles, several researchers have proposed differentrhetorical structures for each of the canonical sections of this genre in different disciplines. However, little research has been conducted on the structural organisation of the discussion section from a contrastive perspective. This paper, therefore, reports on the rhetorical organization of the discussion section of English and Spanish research articles in the field of Psychology using Swales?(1981, 1990) model of analysis. Even though the general results reveal that there are similarities between English and Spanish discussions in terms of the use of moves, some differences were also noted. The analysis of the English corpus showed that Providing background information, Stating results, Referring to previous research and Providing explanations were obligatory moves, while theanalysis of the Spanish corpus revealed that only two mo