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T1 To be or, not to be, self-critical? Writing discussion and/or closing sections in English and Spanish social science research articles
T2 ¿Ser, o no ser, autocríticos? Redactando en inglés y en español los apartados de la discusión y/o los finales en artículos de investigación sobre ciencias sociales.
A1 Moreno Fernández, Ana Isabel
A2 Filologia Inglesa
K1 Comunicación
K1 Lengua española
K1 Lengua inglesa
K1 Lingüística
K1 Research article
K1 Move analysis
K1 Research evaluation
K1 Self-critical attitude
K1 Intercultural rhetoric
K1 5701, 5704, 5705
AB Research article Discussion and/or Closing (DC) sections represent the lastopportunity to convince readers of the validity of the researchers’ own study,specifically its conceptual value and methodological soundness. However, writingthese sections for publication in English-medium journals is especially challengingfor authors for whom English is not a first language, especially so for Spanish socialscientists. In this paper, I hypothesise that one reason for the difficulties felt by theseauthors is that the conventions for being self-critical, such as in stating thelimitations of the study, in these sections for publication in Spanish-mediumjournals edited in Spain differ from those followed in comparable sections publishedin English-medium journals. Using move-step analysis methodology, this studycompared the self-critical segments in ten pairs of comparable social science DCsections from the Exemplary Empirical Research Articles in English and Spanish(EXEMPRAES) Corpus. The study found that researchers in English were morecritical about the quality, both positive and negative, of their own study. In contrast,researchers writing in Spanish were more inclined to focus on its contributions.These differences were explored further through email interviews amongst a subsample of authors. Implications for intercultural rhetoric and English for researchpublication purposes are discussed."The key points of this study can be heard in a conference presentation in multimedia (video) format, which is available at [http://hdl.handle.net/10612/15054]."
PB Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade and the Serbian Association for the Study of English (SASE)
SN 2334-9050
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10612/15055
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10612/15055
DS BULERIA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de León
RD 25-abr-2024