Authors’ names:
- Irina A. Anashkina, Inna I. Konkova – National Research Ogarev Mordovia State University, Saransk, Republic of Mordovia, Russian Federation
Abstract:
Genres of research literature are historically established types of scientific and scholarly liter-ature which can be classified according to different criteria. The article focuses on two such genres, abstract and presentation summary, with the goal of providing a comparative analysis of the metastructures of these two genres in terms of the following functions: interpretation, reduction of details, dialogization, confirmation of what has been said by means of visuals, text formation, evaluation, commentary, recognition, attracting attention, author’s individualization, achievements emphasizing, research prospects, and providing additional information. The relevance of the article is established by a number of factors:
- the need for a functional approach to the metastructures of presentation summary and abstracts as genres of scientific and technical discourse;
- in terms of general theory, the need to develop a theory of different types of discursive practice;
- in terms of the typological and comparative aspects, the need to identify universal and specific characteristics of discourse metastructures.
The scientific novelty of this research lies in the fact that this is the first comparative analysis of the genres in question, conducted with the help of the AntConc corpus manager. The goal was to examine the specific functions of the respective metastructures and to show the construction of discourse through the prism of metadiscursivity.
The research material comprises texts of modern abstracts and presentation summaries, and the methods employed in the study include critical discourse analysis, corpus-oriented discourse analysis, and the method of continuous sampling of research material at the initial stage of the study.
The study makes a meaningful contribution to the theory of discourse and expands our knowledge of the structure of metastructures and the means of their linguistic manifestation in scientific and technical discourse (with a specific focus on presentation summaries and abstracts), which has added significance in the current context of informatization and digitalization of global society. Practically, the research results may be used for further study of genres of scientific and technical discourse as well as in writing abstracts and presentation summaries for more effective communication. Based on the results of the comparative analysis of presentation summaries and abstracts, the authors draw conclusions about the frequency of metastructures used in these genres and the degree of their metadiscursiveness, and identify both the common functions of the two metastructures and the functions characteristic specifically of each of the two genres, highlighting the most common and less popular functions of metastructures in the both genres, and describing probable reasons for this statistical distribution.
| Section | LANGUAGE AND CULTURE |
| DOI: | 10.47388/2072-3490/lunn2024-65-1-9-24 |
| Downloads | 134 |
| Key words | genre; presentation summary; abstract; metastructures; corpus; corpus-oriented discourse analysis method |