Chapter 7
Conference abstracts in English
A challenge for non-Anglophone writers
With the growing internationalisation of all scholarship the use of English as an international lingua franca has
become an important prerequisite for scholars who intend to submit their abstracts and present their research to an
academic audience at international conferences. Consequently, scholars from non-Anglophone backgrounds have to master
the writing of this research-process genre (Swales, 1990) in English, since
otherwise they may risk being refused participation at conferences and publication in conference proceedings. This
chapter analyses the textual organisation of conference abstracts (CAs) written in English with the aim of finding out
whether there is intercultural variation in rhetorical moves and their linguistic realisations applied by Anglophone
scholars and those from some countries where Slavonic languages are spoken.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Corpus and methodology
- 3.Findings and discussion
- 3.1Macrostructure of CAs
- 3.2Selected linguistic realisations of CAs
- 4.Conclusions
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Acknowledgement
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