Table of contents
Chapter 1.Introduction
1.1Rationale
1.2Aims and objectives
1.3Organisation of the book
Chapter 2.Theoretical frameworks
Introduction
2.1Move analysis
2.1.1Swales’s approach to move analysis and its applications
2.1.2Section boundary issues
2.1.3Move identification issues
2.1.4Move/step phenomena
2.2Phraseology
2.2.1The distributional approach to phraseology
2.2.2Terminology
2.2.3Methodology and formal characteristics
2.2.4Structures
2.2.5Functions
2.2.6Phraseology and rhetorical functions
2.3Select studies in rhetorical structures and linguistic
realisations
2.4Rhetorical structures and their properties
2.5Linguistic realisations of rhetorical structures
2.6Select studies into intra-disciplinary variation
Chapter 3.Mechanical engineering: Its nature, the informants and the corpus
Introduction
3.1The nature of mechanical engineering
3.1.1Mechanical engineering and its sub-disciplines
3.1.2Research methods in mechanical engineering
3.1.3Epistemological and sociological properties of mechanical
engineering
3.2The role of mechanical engineering informants
3.3The corpus
3.3.1Construction of the present corpus
3.3.2Characteristics of the corpus
Chapter 4.Methodology
Introduction
4.1Move analysis
4.1.1Move analysis approach
4.1.2Move analysis procedure
4.1.3Data processing
4.1.4Further file preparation
4.1.5Data analysis
4.2Phraseology
4.2.1Identification of n-grams
4.2.2Manual check
4.2.3Classification
4.2.4Data analysis
4.3Variation
4.3.1Quantitative analyses
4.3.2Qualitative analyses
4.3.3How variation is accounted for
Chapter 5.Rhetorical structures of mechanical engineering research articles
Introduction
5.1Prototypical framework of communicative functions in the mechanical
engineering articles
5.2Properties of the framework: The range, length, frequency, embedding, sequence and cycle
5.2.1The introduction section
5.2.2The methods section
5.2.3The results-discussion section
5.2.4The conclusion section
5.2.5The ‘other functions’ category
5.3Structural properties
5.3.1Communicative functions and epistemology
5.3.2Complexity in the realisation of communicative categories
5.3.3Co-occurrence patterns of the rhetorical functions
5.3.4Logical presentation
5.3.5Cognitive orientation of the rhetorical structures
Chapter 6.The phraseological profile of mechanical engineering research
articles
Introduction
6.1Structures of the n-grams
6.2Functions of the n-grams
6.2.1Research-oriented phrases
6.2.2Text-oriented phrases
6.2.3Participant-oriented category
6.3Phraseological properties
6.3.1Correspondence between structures and functions
6.3.2Phraseology and epistemology
6.3.3The phraseological realisations of the macro-structure and rhetorical
structures
6.4Cohesion
Chapter 7.Rhetorical variation within the mechanical engineering discipline
Introduction
7.1Results of quantitative analyses
7.2Intra-disciplinary variation
7.2.1Variation on the sub-disciplinary level (mechanical systems and
thermal-fluids engineering)
7.2.2Variation on the research tradition level (experimental, theoretical
and mixed)
7.2.3Variation on the publication time level (2002–2006 and
2012–2016)
7.2.4Summary
Chapter 8.Conclusions and implications
Introduction
8.1Summary of principal findings
8.2Contributions
8.3Implications
8.3.1Theoretical implications
8.3.2Pedagogical implications
Appendices
Appendix A.Range, frequency, and length of communicative functions across the
sub-corpora
Appendix B.Results from statistical tests performed on moves and steps
Appendix C.Results of quantitative analyses
The introduction section
The methods section
The results-discussion section
The conclusion section
The ‘other functions’ category
References
Index
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