Kyle Lucas, Sarah Lucas

The Structure of Philosophical Discourse (eBook, PDF)

A Genre and Move Analysis

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Produktbeschreibung

This book builds on existing work in genre analysis and move analysis in English for Specific Purposes and applies this new framework to academic philosophical discourse, offering new insights into how ESP traditions can elucidate shifts in language conventions across disciplinary contexts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003854500
• Artikelnr.: 70283653

Autorenporträt

Kyle Lucas is a Instructor of Writing at Ferris State University, Michigan, USA. He received his PhD in English from Purdue University in 2022.

Sarah Lucas is a PhD candidate in the Philosophy Department at Purdue University, Indiana, USA, and a Full-Time Lecturer in Philosophy at Ferris State University, Michigan, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 English for Specific Purposes, genre, and move analysis
1.2 Research space and motivation
1.3 Innovating genre and move analysis
1.4 Outline of remaining chapters
Chapter 2: Genre across research traditions
2.1 ESP genre theory and Swales' framework
2.2 Situating ESP genre theory: A comparative analysis
2.3 Criticisms and recent changes in the ESP tradition
2.4 The need for further theorizing
Chapter 3: A cognitive theory of genre
3.1 A definition of genre
3.2 Genre frames
3.3 Illocutionary and perlocutionary frame elements
3.4 Prototypicality effects in text classification
3.5 The basic level
3.6 Conclusion
Chapter 4: Introduction to move analysis
4.1 Move analysis overview
4.2 Building a corpus for move analysis
4.3 Analyzing the corpus
4.4 Refining move analysis
4.5 Conclusion
Chapter 5: What move analysis has revealed about academic writing
5.1 What move analysis has revealed about research article sections
5.2 What move analysis has revealed about writing across the disciplines
5.3 New horizons for move analysis and linguistic analysis
5.4 Conclusion
Chapter 6: Writing in philosophy
6.1 Move analysis studies of philosophical writing
6.2 Other forms of research on philosophical writing
6.3 Conclusion
Chapter 7: The corpus of philosophical research articles
7.1 The discipline of philosophy
7.2 Overview of the philosophical research article corpus
7.3 Situational analysis of corpus
7.4 Representativeness of the corpus
7.5 Methodological framework: Move analysis and communicative functions
7.6 Conclusion
Chapter 8: The macro-structure of philosophical discourse
8.1 The purpose and macro-structure of philosophy research articles
8.2 Macro-structures: Sequences and cycles
8.3 Discussion
8.4 Conclusion
Chapter 9: The micro-structure of philosophical discourse
9.1 Moves and steps in the introduction
9.2 Moves and steps in the body of the work
9.3 Argumentative strategies
9.4 Moves and steps in the conclusion
9.5 Conclusion
Chapter 10: Additional aspects of philosophical discourse
10.1 Overview of systemic functions
10.2 Footnotes
10.3 Key systemic functions
10.4 Conclusion
Chapter 11: Conclusion
11.1 Notable findings
11.2 Broader significance
11.3 Limitations and future research
Appendix: Corpus of research articles
Index