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Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2010

From text to corpus : a contrastive analysis of economics article introductions in English and French

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Academic writing, particularly the research article, has been the subject of a considerable body of applied research aimed at underpinning the needs of non-native users of English wishing to study and publish in English (Swales 1990; Hyland 1998). Although this research has frequently been conducted from a contrastive viewpoint (comparing different genres or disciplines, or native and non-native speaker productions), the number of studies involving research on academic writing in languages other than English has been far more modest (Carter-Thomas 2007). We believe therefore that a contrastive analysis of articles in English and French in a particular area, in this case economics, can have applications for teachers of French academic writing outside French-speaking countries and for teachers of English academic writing in French-speaking countries. As economics is an important source of demand for translations, the applications are also relevant in translator education. After explaining the research background in contrastive approaches to academic writing, the advantages and drawbacks of qualitative and quantitative approaches to the analysis of academic writing will be outlined. One article introduction corresponding as closely as possible to the prototypical Swalesian CARS model (1990) will be selected in each language. Through a study of the article introductions and concordance-based analysis, the role of the first person will be examined in relation to the “moves” which Swales has identified in article introductions. Our study is based on a corpus of 100 research articles, 50 in English and 50 in French, taken from the University of Bergen KIAP corpus (Fløttum et al. 2006).

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hal-00552952 , version 1 (06-01-2011)

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Shirley Carter-Thomas, Angela Chambers. From text to corpus : a contrastive analysis of economics article introductions in English and French. ISSP '10 : Irish Social Science Platform Annual Conference, Dec 2010, Limerick, Ireland. ⟨hal-00552952⟩
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