Critical Genre Analysis of the “Discussion” Section of MA Theses by International Students

LIU Cheng-yu; LIU Hao-yan

doi:10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2021100065

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LIU Cheng-yu, LIU Hao-yan. Critical Genre Analysis of the “Discussion” Section of MA Theses by International Students[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2022, 38(2): 172-178. doi: 10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2021100065

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LIU Cheng-yu, LIU Hao-yan. Critical Genre Analysis of the “Discussion” Section of MA Theses by International Students[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2022, 38(2): 172-178. doi: 10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2021100065

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Critical Genre Analysis of the “Discussion” Section of MA Theses by International Students

doi: 10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2021100065

International College, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China

Received Date: 2021-10-21
Available Online: 2022-04-06
Publish Date: 2022-04-25

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Critical Genre Analysis (CGA) proposed by Bhatia (2006) focuses on how genre resources are appropriately utilized in a professional environment to achieve communicative purposes. Based on this theory, a four-dimensional model of discourse realization is adopted to analyze the “discussion” section of 60 MA theses by international students from three universities in western China, aiming to examine the use of genre resources therein. The study shows that international students follow certain patterns of move structures and use language with salient academic characteristics; three types of interdiscursivity, i.e. blended interdiscursivity, embedded interdiscursivity and chained interdiscursivity, are employed to help achieve the communicative purposes; and all this is triggered by the underlying academic culture. The three salient discursive features of this section, i.e. visualization, standardization and identity construction, are then scrutinized from the perspective of CGA.
- international students,
- MA theses,
- move structure,
- interdiscursivity,
- critical genre analysis

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