An Analysis of Moves in Introductions in International and Thai Journal Research Articles

Authors

Wirada Amnuai
Anchalee Wannaruk

Publication Date

2013-01-01

Abstract

The schematic organization of research articles in terms of moves and steps has attracted extensive attention in genre study, and the focus of move-based analysis is on the hierarchical schematic structures of texts. The primary aim of this study is to compare the rhetorical moves in English research article introductions in Applied Linguistics as published in local Thai journals with those published in international journals. The comparison was made between 20 local and 20 international research article introductions selected from seven refereed local Thai journals and from seven international journals. These research article introductions were analyzed based on Swales' (2004) model. The results indicated that all three moves, namely, establishing a territory, establishing a niche and presenting the present work, were used in both datasets, but there was a slight difference in their frequencies of occurrence. As for the realization of the moves, the two corpora used different steps.

DOI

10.58837/CHULA.PASAA.45.1.4

First Page

61

Last Page

90

Recommended Citation

Amnuai, Wirada and Wannaruk, Anchalee (2013) "An Analysis of Moves in Introductions in International and Thai Journal Research Articles," PASAA: Vol. 45: Iss. 1, Article 4.
DOI: 10.58837/CHULA.PASAA.45.1.4
Available at: https://digital.car.chula.ac.th/pasaa/vol45/iss1/4