Abstract This study builds on existing genre analyses of research grant proposal abstracts by articulating a framework of move definitions that includes the sequencing and cycling of moves as well as their real-world or science orientation, and by exploring the tension between prototypicality and variation in these patterns. Two settings for national research grant competitions aimed at early-career scientists are introduced, namely the New Zealand Marsden award and the Chilean Fondecyt award. A framework of five constituent moves is formulated and 36 collected grant proposal abstracts are analyzed for their move-structure patterns and accompanying lexico-grammatical signals. A prototypical move-structure pattern is formulated and exemplified with abstracts from both settings and different disciplines, while key variations on this prototypical pattern are also described and analyzed. The findings suggest that a majority of abstracts are near-prototypical in structure (i.e., showing a single variation on a shared prototype) and therefore collectively maintain and reinforce this prototypical pattern as a common reference even as they individually diverge from it for their own rhetorical purposes.

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科学与工程中的资助提案摘要：一种典型的移动结构模式及其变体

摘要 本研究建立在对研究资助提案摘要的现有体裁分析的基础上，阐明了一个动作定义框架，其中包括动作的顺序和循环以及它们的现实世界或科学方向，并通过探索这些原型和变化之间的张力。模式。介绍了针对早期职业科学家的国家研究资助竞赛的两种设置，即新西兰 Marsden 奖和智利 Fondecyt 奖。制定了五个组成动作的框架，并分析了 36 份收集到的拨款提案摘要的动作结构模式和伴随的词汇语法信号。一个典型的移动结构模式是用来自不同背景和不同学科的摘要来制定和举例说明的，同时还描述和分析了这种原型模式的主要变化。研究结果表明，大多数摘要在结构上接近原型（即，在共享原型上显示出单一的变化），因此集体维护和强化了这种原型模式，作为一个共同的参考，即使他们各自为自己的修辞而背离它目的。