Interacting voices structure a text: A quantitative investigation of dialogic elements across structural units in the introductory chapters of history theses
Tomoko SAWAKI
Functions of Language 2020 [Refereed]
This paper quantitatively measures the distribution of dialogic elements across structural units in the introductory chapters of history theses with the aim of uncovering the roles of dialogic elements in constructing texts. The research was desig...
Visualising trends: Patterns of moves in history thesis introductory chapters
Tomoko SAWAKI
Taiwan International ESP Journal 2018 [Refereed]
This paper is a methodological exploration of history theses that analyses intra-disciplinary variations using a statistical technique, correspondence analysis. Many previous studies concerning academic discourse variations had to rely on pre-set ...
Journal of English for Academic Purposes 16 81-92 Dec 2014 [Refereed]
This study explores the function of expressing external viewpoints with stance-neutral frames in academic writing. While a growing number of studies have established that appropriately evaluating external viewpoints is vital in advanced academic w...
English Text Construction 7(2) 178-214 Nov 2014 [Refereed]
Dialogic elements are considered to play a crucial role in text construction, but little has been revealed concerning how these elements interact with other resources to construct text. This paper explores the text-organizing function of heteroglo...
The Public Journal of Semiotics 6(1) 73-90 2014 [Refereed]
This paper proposes solutions for a number of difficulties that Swalean generic structure analysis has been experiencing concerning the identification methods it applies to generic structure components. It does this by integrating the Greimassian ...
Palgrave Macmillan Oct 2016 ISBN:978-1-137-54238-0
This book breaks through formalistic traditions to propose a new generic structure analytical framework for academic writing. The integrated approach, taking lessons from cognitive linguistics and structuralism, offers a foundation for establishin...
