Rhetorical Moves of Applied Linguistics Research Article Abstracts on Scopus-Indexed Journals: Contrastive Analysis among the Three Research Approaches

Sattra  Maporn; Intisarn  Chaiyasuk; Anyarat  Nattheeraphong

doi:10.14456/jsasr.2023.20

Authors

Sattra Maporn Department of Western Languages and Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Mahasarakham University, Thailand https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4894-3705
Intisarn Chaiyasuk Department of Western Languages and Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Mahasarakham University, Thailand https://orcid.org/0009-0000-6207-9920
Anyarat Nattheeraphong Department of Western Languages and Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Mahasarakham University, Thailand https://orcid.org/0009-0005-3584-0637

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14456/jsasr.2023.20

Keywords:

Move Analysis; , Research Article Abstract; , Scopus-indexed Journal

Abstract

Background and Aim: Even though there are a lot of research articles in high-impact international linguistics journals, there aren't many studies that look at how their abstracts use rhetorical moves in different ways. This study aims to identify rhetorical patterns of research article abstracts in linguistics in Scopus-indexed journals

Materials and Methods: This study analyzed 54 research article abstracts in applied linguistics Scopus-indexed journals published between 2012 and 2022, employing the model of Hyland (2000) to identify rhetorical moves. To analyze the data, the frequencies, and percentages of rhetorical moves used in quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research articles were employed.

Results: The results showed that the concepts of purpose (P) and product (Pr) occupied the largest portion of the collected research article abstracts. Furthermore, the data revealed 23 rhetorical move patterns in the dataset. The 10 repetitive moves were also found in this study.

Conclusion: Furthermore, the data revealed 23 rhetorical move patterns in the dataset, indicating that linguistics researchers follow the model of Hyland (2000) and also use variant move patterns.

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