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T1 An intercultural approach to “bad news” reporting as an embedded part-genreThe “local” rhetoric of Limitations in research articles
T2 Aproximación intercultural a la comunicación de “malas noticias” como subestructura genérica incrustada: la retórica “local” de las Limitaciones en artículos de investigación
A1 Moreno Fernández, Ana Isabel
A2 Filologia Inglesa
K1 Lengua inglesa
K1 Limitations
K1 Discussion and/or conclusion section
K1 Research article
K1 Bad news genre
K1 Intercultural rhetoric
K1 Limitaciones
K1 Apartado de la discusión y/o conclusión
K1 Artículo de investigación
K1 Comunicación de malas noticias
K1 Retórica intercultural
K1 5701.11 Enseñanza de Lenguas
AB [EN] Acknowledging the limitations of one’s own research in empirical researcharticle Discussion and/or other closing sections is rhetorically challenging, andespecially for those aiming to publish in a foreign language. This paperhypothesizes that a part of the challenge may be due to cross-cultural differencesin the rhetorical strategies used for presenting these potentially self-damagingstatements. Adopting an intercultural rhetoric approach, two sub-samples ofLimitations were drawn from two English/Spanish comparable corpora of thistype of sections in the social sciences. Then, the rhetorical purposes of theirsurrounding segments were compared from the lens of the “bad news” message.The results showed that most authors prepared the reader for the Limitations,although the preferred stylistic strategies for doing so varied across the twolanguages. Authors also tended to exploit a similar set of rhetorical purposes, butin different ways, to persuade readers about the acceptability of their own studylimitations. Specifically, in English it was conventional to sandwich the Limitationswith “good news”, including implications for future practice, to mitigate theirpossible negative effect. In contrast, in Spanish it was conventional to surroundthem with explications to display the authors’ expertise, while the only salientmitigating strategy was their attribution to an external factor. These divergentrhetorical practices may be understood in terms of different cultural writingstyles and authors’ understandings of impression management that wereuncovered through email interviews. I advocate for a critical interculturalawareness approach to training scholars in writing skills necessary for researchpublication purposes in different languages and contexts
PB AELFE, Asociación Europea de Lenguas para fines específicos
SN 1139-7241
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10612/20320
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10612/20320
NO Moreno Fernández, A. I. (2022). An intercultural approach to “bad news” reporting as an embedded part-genre: The “local” rhetoric of Limitations in research articles. Ibérica: Revista de la Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos ( AELFE ), 44, 101-126. https://doi.org/10.17398/2340-2784.44.101
DS BULERIA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de León
RD 02-jun-2024