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Moreno Fernández, Ana Isabel
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Research article Discussion and/or Closing (DC) sections represent the last opportunity to persuade readers about the worth of the researchers’ own study, specifically its conceptual value and methodological soundness. However, writing these sections for publication in English-medium journals is especially challenging for authors for whom English is not a first language, especially so for Spanish social scientists. In this paper, I hypothesise that one reason for the difficulties felt by these authors is that the conventions for being self-critical, such as in stating the limitations of the study, in these sections for publication in Spanish-medium journals edited in Spain differ from those followed in comparable sections published in English-medium journals. Using move-step analysis methodology, this study compared the self-critical segments in ten pairs of comparable social science DC sections from the Exemplary Empirical Research Articles in English and Spanish (EXEMPRAES) Corpus. The study found that researchers in English were more critical about the quality, both positive and negative, of their own study. In contrast, researchers in Spanish were more inclined to focus on its contributions. These differences were explored further through email interviews amongst a sub-sample of authors. Implications for English for research publication purposes and intercultural rhetoric are discussed.
The research on which this presentation is based has been published in an impact-factor scientific journal (Moreno, 2022), which can be retrieved at Moreno, Ana I. (2022). ‘To be, or not to be’, self-critical? Writing Discussion and/or closing sections in English and Spanish social science research articles. ESP Today, 10(2), 221–244. [https://doi.org/10.18485/esptoday.2022.10.2.2]
39 Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de de Lingüística Aplicada (AESLA)
http://hdl.handle.net/10612/15054
Universidad de León
Lengua española
Lengua extranjera
Lengua inglesa
Lingüística
To be or not to be self-critical in social science research article discussion and/or closing sections: a Spanish-English intercultural approach