An IMRD-based Contrastive Study of Move in Aquatic Biology Article Abstracts by Native English Speakers and Chinese Authors
An IMRD-based Contrastive Study of Move in Aquatic Biology Article Abstracts by Native English Speakers and Chinese Authors作者机构:School of Foreign Languages Northeast Normal University
出 版 物:《海外英语》 (Overseas English)
年 卷 期:2019年第24期
页 面:111-112页
学科分类:0303[法学-社会学] 0501[文学-中国语言文学] 050102[文学-语言学及应用语言学] 03[法学] 030303[法学-人类学] 05[文学]
主 题:move IMRD model abstract genre academic text
摘 要:Although contrastive move analysis of article abstracts has been a highlight,few studies focus on abstracts of natural sci⁃ence *** compensate for this gap,this study,based on IMRD model,focuses on aquatic biology abstracts and contrasts those by native English speakers and those by Chinese *** quantitative and qualitative studies,it reveals their dif⁃ferences and similarities in terms of the frequency of different moves,sentence length and move length *** similari⁃ties and differences can be explained by the face culture of China,the different language proficiency and the common convention of academic abstract.