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Peer reviewedPaltridge, Brian – Applied Linguistics, 1994
Several examples of genre analysis are examined to identify criteria employed for the identification of textual boundaries. The conclusion is that there are nonlinguistic reasons for generic staging in texts and that the search for structural divisions is a search for cognitive boundaries in terms of convention, appropriacy, and content. (42…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Context Clues, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedAtkinson, Dwight – Applied Linguistics, 1992
Research articles from the oldest continuing medical journal in English were studied in terms of rhetorical analysis of broad genre characteristics and linguistic analysis of registral features using Biber's system of text analysis. Results suggest evolution influenced can be accounted for by changing epistemological norms of medical knowledge,…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Epistemology, Foreign Countries, Medical Research
