English Engagement Markers: A Comparison of Humanities and Science Journal Articles
Publish place: Journal of Language Art، Vol: 2، Issue: 1
Publish Year: 1395
Type: Journal paper
Language: English
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JR_LART-2-1_006
Index date: 24 October 2017
English Engagement Markers: A Comparison of Humanities and Science Journal Articles abstract
Engagement markers (hereafter, EMs) are crucial interpersonal devices to interact with readers through texts. However, little is known about the differences of EMs use in Humanities and Science journal research articles (hereafter, RAs), as well asthe changes in markers use over the passage of time. The present study provides a quantitative and contrastive analysis based on two corpora consisting of fourdisciplines of Humanities RAs (Psychology, Sociology, Economics and Law) andfour disciplines of science RAs (Mathematics, Geology, Physics and Biology). Sixteen articles from each discipline were selected randomly from a pool of journalRAs. All sections of the articles were scrutinized for the purpose of the study. The obtained results indicate that Humanities RAs make use of more EMs than ScienceRAs. Also, the findings of this study suggest that directives are used more than other markers both in Humanities and Science RAs. Regarding the use of EMs in the decades of 1990s and 2000s, a significant increase in the use of EMs was observed with the passage of time, both in Humanities and Science RAs
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English Engagement Markers: A Comparison of Humanities and Science Journal Articles authors
Rahman Sahragard
Professor of Foreign Languages and Linguistic Department,Shiraz University, Iran.
Solmaz Yazdanpanahi
M.A. in Teaching English as a Foreign Language,Shiraz University, Iran.