Linguistic variation in research articles: when discipline tells only part of the story
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Table of contents Acknowledgements ix List of tables xi List of figures xv CHAPTER 1 Introduction 1.1 Academic research writing: One register or many? 1 1.1.1 A note on ‘register’ 6 1.1.2 Goal of the present book 7 1.2 The linguistic characteristics of academic writing 8 1.3 Linguistic variation and disciplinary writing 10 1.4 Trends and gaps in the study of disciplinary writing 14 1.5 Overview of the book: Applying corpus analytical approaches to disciplinary register variation 21 chapter 2 Describing the domain of academic journal writing 2.1 Introduction 27 2.2 Surveying the domain of disciplinary journal writing 29 2.2.1 Procedures 29 2.2.2 A taxonomy of academic journal registers 31 2.2.3 Some issues in applying a taxonomy of research articles 2.3 Journal registers in the disciplines 36 2.4 Implications for corpus design 38 chapter 3 Building and analyzing the Academic Journal Register Corpus 3.1 Introduction 41 3.2 Corpus collection procedures 41 3.2.1 Formation of operational definitions for journal registers in specific disciplines 42 3.2.2 Journal and article selection 43 3.2.3 File conversion and clean-up 44 3.3 Corpus description: The Academic Journal Register Corpus 45
VI Linguistic Variation in Research Articles 3.4 Corpus annotation 46 3.4.1 ‘Tagging’: Part of speech annotation 46 3.4.2 Accuracy of automatic tagging 46 3.5 Overview: Procedures for quantitative corpus analysis 50 CHAPTER 4 The situational characteristics of the Academic Journal Register Corpus 53 4.1 Introduction 53 4.2 Motivating a new situational framework for journal registers 53 4.3 A framework for the situational characteristics of journal registers 55 4.3.1 Participants 57 4.3.2 Textual layout and organization 57 4.3.3 Setting 59 4.3.4 Subject/topic 59 4.3.5 Purpose 61 4.3.6 Nature of data or evidence 62 4.3.7 Methodology 63 4.3.8 Explicitness of research design 64 4.4 The situational characteristics of the Academic Journal Register Corpus 65 4.4.1 Common characteristics across journal registers 65 4.4.2 Theoretical articles in philosophy 70 4.4.3 Qualitative articles in history 72 4.4.4 Qualitative and quantitative articles in political science 74 4.4.5 Qualitative and quantitative articles in applied linguistics 75 4.4.6 Quantitative articles in biology 76 4.4.7 Quantitative and theoretical articles in physics 78 4.5 Trends in the situational characteristics of the Academic Journal Register Corpus 80 chapter 5 A lexical and grammatical survey 83 5.1 Introduction 83 5.2 Grammatical variation in academic prose 84 5.3 Carrying out a lexical and grammatical survey 85 5-4 Distribution of core grammatical features 87 5 - 4 - 1 Nouns 89 5.4.2 Verbs 94 5.4.3 The verb phrase: Passive voice 100 5 - 4-4 The verb phrase: Tense and aspect 103 5 - 4-5 Personal pronouns 106 5-5 Summing up: Lexical and grammatical variation 110
Table of contents vn CHAPTER 6 Structural complexity in journal registers 113 6.1 Introduction 113 6.2 Features of elaboration and compression in academic prose 114 6.3 Carrying out a study of structural complexity 116 6.4 The use of features of structural elaboration and compression 118 6.4.1 Clausal elaboration 119 6.4.2 Phrasal compression 123 6.4.3 Intermediate features: Clausal modifiers in the noun phrase 125 6.5 Summing up: Clausal elaboration and phrasal compression 127 6.6 Conclusions 131 CHAPTER 7 A multi-dimensional analysis of journal registers 133 7.1 Introduction 133 7.2 Background: Multi-dimensional analyses of academic language 134 7.3 Carrying out a new multi-dimensional analysis 137 7.3.1 Initial factor analyses to determine linguistic variables 137 7.3.2 Final factor analysis 141 7.3.3 Calculating and comparing factor scores across disciplines and registers 142 7.4 Dimensions of variation in academic journal registers in 6 disciplines 143 7.4.1 Dimension 1: Academic involvement and elaboration vs. informational density 143 7.4.2 Dimension 2: Contextualized narration vs. procedural discourse 154 7.4.3 Dimension 3: Human vs. non-human focus 159 7.4.4 Dimension 4: Academese’ 164 7.5 Conclusions 166 chapter 8 A Synthesis: What do we know? 169 8.1 Introduction 169 8.2 Summing up: Linguistic variation in the Academic Journal Register Corpus 170 8.2.1 How does language use vary across discipline? 170 8.2.2 How does language use vary across academic journal registers? 174 8.3 Three grammatical analyses and future directions 179 8.3.1 What have we learned from three complementary approaches? 180 8.3.2 Future research using corpus analytical techniques to investigate variation in academic journal registers 181
vin Linguistic Variation in Research Articles 8.3.3 Implications: Future linguistic features of interest 182 8.3.4 Implications: Corpus design for studies of disciplinary writing 184 References 187 APPENDIX A Journals examined during taxonomy development APPENDIX B Reliability of automatic tags APPENDIX C Semantic classes of nouns, verbs and adjectives APPENDIX D Full factorial structure matrix for the four-factor solution APPENDIX E Scree plot of the four-factor solution APPENDIX F Significance testing for four-factor solution Index 199 201 205 209 213 215 221
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