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“See Figure 1”: Visual moves in discrete mathematics research articles
English for Specific Purposes ( IF 3.2 ) Pub Date : 2019-10-01 , DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2019.08.001
Shahin Moghaddasi , Heather A.B. Graves , Roger Graves , Xavier Gutierrez

Abstract This research is motivated by John Swales' genre analysis of academic texts and rhetorical studies of visuals in scientific texts. Swales' approach still generates insights into the rhetorical structure of research genres across disciplines, yet few studies explore their nonverbal aspects. Rhetorical studies of visuals examine images and ignore links with surrounding texts and may overlook ways that the nonverbal contributes to the discipline's intellectual project. ESP genre research has begun multimodal analysis of academic genres but its focus on conference presentations has left a gap in the study of verbal-visual links in other academic genres. This paper addresses this gap in multimodal genre scholarship. After analyzing a corpus of 30 RAs from discrete mathematics to identify the functions of visuals and possible visual–move associations, we found that visuals in two-thirds of the corpus perform three functions: ontological, argumentative, and epistemological. Our data also indicates three multimodal rhetorical moves initiated primarily by visuals. Implications of our findings are that visual moves go beyond textual considerations, they can disrupt the RA's chronological structure, and novice writers in the field would benefit from understanding the crucial associations between the visual representations, disciplinary knowledge, and the rhetorical structure of RAs in this field.

中文翻译:

“参见图 1”:离散数学研究文章中的视觉移动

摘要 这项研究的动机是约翰·斯瓦莱斯 (John Swales) 对学术文本的体裁分析和科学文本中视觉效果的修辞研究。Swales 的方法仍然可以洞察跨学科研究类型的修辞结构,但很少有研究探索它们的非语言方面。视觉修辞研究检查图像并忽略与周围文本的联系,并可能忽略非语言对学科智力项目的贡献方式。ESP 体裁研究已经开始对学术体裁进行多模态分析,但其对会议演讲的关注在其他学术体裁中的语言-视觉联系研究中留下了空白。本文解决了多模态流派学术中的这一差距。在分析了来自离散数学的 30 个 RA 语料库以识别视觉功能和可能的视觉-移动关联后,我们发现三分之二的语料库中的视觉效果执行三种功能:本体论、论证和认识论。我们的数据还表明主要由视觉发起的三种多模态修辞动作。我们的研究结果的含义是,视觉移动超出了文本的考虑,它们会破坏 RA 的时间顺序结构,该领域的新手作家将从理解视觉表现、学科知识和 RA 在此方面的修辞结构之间的关键关联中受益。场地。我们的数据还表明主要由视觉发起的三种多模态修辞动作。我们的研究结果的含义是,视觉移动超出了文本的考虑,它们会破坏 RA 的时间顺序结构,该领域的新手作家将从理解视觉表现、学科知识和 RA 在此方面的修辞结构之间的关键关联中受益。场地。我们的数据还表明主要由视觉发起的三种多模态修辞动作。我们的研究结果的含义是,视觉移动超出了文本的考虑,它们会破坏 RA 的时间顺序结构,该领域的新手作家将从理解视觉表现、学科知识和 RA 在此方面的修辞结构之间的关键关联中受益。场地。
更新日期:2019-10-01
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