Jun 2026· IJELTAL (Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics)· 0 citations· 22 references
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Modern scholarship recognizes the research abstract structures in the form of academic texts as disciplinary and communicative genres (Hassan & Siddique, 2026). Recognizing this complexity, and the limited study on how rhetorical patterns vary across different publication settings, this study investigates rhetorical move patterns to address common abstract writing errors identified by Hurley (2025). Employing a mixed-methods approach, the research utilizes Hyland’s (2000) Move Structure Framework to analyze 200 abstracts, comparing 100 local and 100 international research abstracts from reputable international journals published. The findings reveal that Hyland’s IPMRC (Introduction, Purpose, Methodology, Product/Result, Conclusion) model is the dominant pattern across both groups of local and international research abstracts. Statistical analysis identifies Purpose, Methodology, Result, and Conclusion as obligatory moves, while the Introduction remains optional. Comparative data using Log-likelihood tests shows a significant difference in move frequency. International abstracts recorded a frequency of 416 (pmw=21614.88), while local abstracts recorded 402 (pmw=17407.12). The resulting Log-likelihood value (LL = 9.58, p < 0.01) indicates that international researchers employ rhetorical moves with significantly greater frequency and consistency than their local counterparts. Pedagogically, these results underscore the value of genre analysis in the classroom. Explicitly teaching rhetorical structures enables students to: 1) Compose well-structured, professional abstracts, 2) Benefit from refined, discourse-focused writing instruction and 3) Gain a comprehensive grasp of the broader research body. Ultimately, this study recommends that academic writing curricula explicitly integrate rhetorical move analysis to empower language learners in producing high-impact research abstracts.
Journal rankings are assumed to represent the quality of a publication, and research articles published in differently ranked journals are therefore expected to display different rhetorical patterns in their discussion sections. However, studies investigating the rhetorical patterns of discussion sections in research articles published in journals across different quartiles remain limited. This study was conducted to determine whether the journal quartile values influence the rhetorical moves and rhetorical patterns in the discussion sections of research articles on ELT. A mixed-methods approach using content analysis, following Drisko and Maschi (2016), was applied in this research. The data were selected from 80 discussion sections of research articles on ELT that followed the IMRD pattern and were published in internationally reputable journals across different quartiles, based on the SCImago database of 2023. The rhetorical moves in each discussion section were identified and coded following Peacock’s rhetorical move framework (2002). Quantitative analysis was conducted to determine the frequency of rhetorical move occurrences across different quartiles of journals and to identify the rhetorical pattern commonly found in each classification. The results reveal that higher-quartile journals use more complete rhetorical moves, while the lower-quartile journals tend to apply limited rhetorical moves. Consequently, this result leads to different patterns of rhetorical moves commonly found in the discussion sections of research articles published in journals across different quartiles. It is concluded that the quartile values of journals affect the use of rhetorical moves and lead to the development of common discussion-section patterns across different journal quartiles, which also contribute to well-structured research articles. The results have implications for academic writing courses, especially regarding current trends in the rhetorical structure of the discussion section of research articles based on the quartile value of the journals.
Mei Hardiah, Safnil Arsyad, Wisma Yunita· Jurnal Arbitrer· 0 citations
This study investigates argumentative patterns in research article introductions (RAIs) by integrating genre
analysis with argumentation theories. Although Swales’ Create-a-Research-Space (CaRS) model has received sustained attention in
genre-analytic research, particularly for its pedagogical value, its inherently argumentative dimension remains underexplored.
Addressing this gap, the study reconceptualizes CaRS rhetorical moves as argumentative activity types and examines how
argumentative patterns are mobilized in published peer-reviewed RAIs. Drawing on Pragma-Dialectics and the Argumentum Model of
Topics (AMT), forty RAIs from Scopus-indexed journals in applied linguistics were analyzed using a three-tier framework: (1)
identifying issues and standpoints in relation to communicative goals, (2) reconstructing argumentation structures, and (3)
identifying underlying loci. The findings demonstrate how rhetorical organization and reasoning jointly establish research
legitimacy, position studies within existing literature, and substantiate their scholarly contribution. The study also proposes an
integrative framework bridging macro-level genre analysis and micro-level argumentation analysis, offering empirically grounded
guidance for academic writers.
Narjes Sheikh Asadi, Andrea Rocci· Journal of Argumentation in...· 0 citations
Research article abstracts function as both informational summaries and access points to disciplinary knowledge. This study compares the rhetorical organisation and linguistic realisation of English and Uzbek research article abstracts, focusing on promotional and expository orientations. The corpus comprises 68 abstracts published between 2023 and 2025 and equally divided between the two languages. The texts were analysed using a five-move, fifteen-step model. Purpose and Results emerged as the most stable moves in both corpora, while Method and the complete five-move structure were more consistently represented in English abstracts. English writers more often separated communicative functions through finite research verbs, explicit data statements, reporting frames, and contribution claims. Uzbek abstracts more frequently integrated purpose, method, results, and evaluation through nominal-predicative constructions, action nominals, passive predicates, and extended enumerations. These differences are interpreted as discoursal and institutional preferences rather than fixed cultural traits. The main contrast concerns rhetorical visibility and information packaging, not the communicative functions themselves.
Abduganiyeva Zebuniso Abduhafizovna· American Journal of Applied...· 0 citations
This study mapped the global landscape of pragmatics and speech act research through a bibliometric approach. A corpus of 1,346 Scopus-indexed articles and reviews published between 2015 and 2025 was analyzed using the bibliometrix package in R and Biblioshiny, examining publication trends, citation patterns, and network structures including co-authorship, co-citation, and keyword co-occurrence. The findings revealed a sustained growth in research output (annual growth rate: 10.1%), sustained by a small set of core journals, most prominently the Journal of Pragmatics, and a group of highly prolific authors distributed across institutions in Europe, East Asia, and the Middle East. Theoretically, the field remained anchored in foundational constructs derived from speech act theory, politeness, and interlanguage pragmatics, while emerging areas such as digital discourse, corpus-based approaches, and computational applications had gained increasing visibility. Co-citation analysis identified Austin (1962), Searle (1979), and Brown and Levinson (1987) as the most consistently cited intellectual anchors. The co-word network revealed a conceptual structure centered on speech acts and pragmatics, with interconnected clusters related to politeness and interactional norms, specific speech-act types such as requests and apologies, and emerging computational or data-driven approaches. Taken together, the results sketched a field that had grown substantially over the decade, consolidated around a recognizable set of theoretical anchors, and opened up toward new methods, media, and cross-linguistic contexts.
Zulfikri Zulfikri· Datokarama English Education...· 0 citations
Educational mandates promoting a research culture among educators and students emphasize the importance of high-quality research publications. A critical component of this is writing effective research abstracts, a key requirement for journal acceptance. This comparative genre-based study aimed to analyze the macrostructure and linguistic features of 40 local agricultural research abstracts from a state university journal and 40 international abstracts from reputable journals covering 2011-2024. Using Hyland’s (2000, 2004, 2005) frameworks, the rhetorical structures, metadiscourse patterns, and communicative functions of the corpora were analyzed. Both local and international abstracts commonly employed moves like Purpose, Method, and Product. Local abstracts considered the Introduction and Conclusion moves as optional, while these moves were conventional in international abstracts. Typical patterns for local abstracts were PMPrC and PMPr, while most international abstracts followed Hyland's IPMPrC framework. Both sets used metadiscourse markers, but international abstracts employed them more frequently, favoring boosters over hedges to emphasize certainty and validation. These findings highlight the importance of adhering to international academic writing norms to enhance research visibility and impact, with implications for teaching academic writing and research.
Frelita O. Bartolome, W. Magday· English Language Teaching Ed...· 0 citations
Abstract. Driven by institutional pressures on second-language scholars to publish in internationally indexed journals, this systematic review evaluates two decades (2006–2026) of empirical literature on research article introductions in the English-Vietnamese context to address the persistent divide between macro-structural and micro-linguistic analytical traditions. Guided by an adapted PRISMA 2020 protocol, 45 empirical studies retrieved from Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar were systematically selected and synthesized through qualitative thematic coding and descriptive content analysis. The synthesis demonstrates that existing literature has largely evolved along two parallel trajectories comprising macro-level move analyses (22 studies) and micro-level cohesion investigations (17 studies) with only six studies examining their interaction. While genre based research shows that Vietnamese authors frequently favor indirect niche establishment strategies in Move 2, cohesion focused studies report distinct tendencies in conjunction deployment and thematic progression, thereby uncovering three major gaps including the methodological separation between structural and textual analysis, the lack of move specific functional accounts of cohesive ties, and the limited integration of linguistic typology with discourse practices. To bridge these gaps, this review proposes an integrated conceptual framework that treats communicative functions as the functional context for lexicogrammatical choices, offering a unified model for future contrastive research and establishing pedagogical directions for academic writing instruction.
Duc V. Le· Technium Social Sciences Jou...· 0 citations