Tracing Subisciplinary Differences in the Thematic Organization of the Introduction Section of Research Articles

4to Congreso de la Asociación Lingüística Sistémico-Funcional de América Latina

Universidad de Santa Catarina

Lugar: Florianopolis; Año: 2008; p. 1 - 7

This study attempts to corroborate the potential of theme as genre discriminator. More precisely, its potential as subgenre discriminator.

reinforce Swales? claim that the disciplinary area itself might turn out to be a relevant variable.(Swales,1994)

I intend to follow in Mac Donald?s (1994) line of research, which focuses on subjects to disclose  subdisciplinary differences in the text of humanities.

Halliday (1993, in Martínez 2003) claims that in scientific texts the role of theme as an organizer of texts is crucial