Ethnolinguistic influence on citation in English and Persian hard and soft science research articles

Citation, as a central and integral issue in academic writing, has been the focus of many recent scholarly articles to highlight the significant role of this discursive practice in the realm of research article writing. Nonetheless, most of the previous studies, with notable exceptions, examined dis...

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Main Authors:	Shooshtari, Zohreh Gooniband, Jalilifar, Alireza, Shahri, Somaiyeh
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Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2017
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11288/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11288/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11288/1/17971-54514-1-PB.pdf

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spelling	ukm-112882018-01-21T14:56:06Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11288/ Ethnolinguistic influence on citation in English and Persian hard and soft science research articles Shooshtari, Zohreh Gooniband Jalilifar, Alireza Shahri, Somaiyeh Citation, as a central and integral issue in academic writing, has been the focus of many recent scholarly articles to highlight the significant role of this discursive practice in the realm of research article writing. Nonetheless, most of the previous studies, with notable exceptions, examined disciplinary influences on citation practices independently of ethnolinguistic influences, and vice versa. The present study investigates the doubly contrastive language-discipline perspective on the one hand and draws a distinction between disciplinary cultures and national cultures on the other. A corpus of 240 research articles sampled from leading Persian and English language medium journals of applied linguistics and psychology as representatives of soft sciences, and computer engineering and mechanical engineering as representatives of hard sciences, was examined drawing on Coffin‟s (2009) integrative analytic framework. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of the several aspects of citation features of Bakhtinian dialogism demonstrated some cross-disciplinary and cross-linguistic similarities and differences. Pedagogical implications derived from these findings are discussed. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2017 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11288/1/17971-54514-1-PB.pdf Shooshtari, Zohreh Gooniband and Jalilifar, Alireza and Shahri, Somaiyeh (2017) Ethnolinguistic influence on citation in English and Persian hard and soft science research articles. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 23 (2). pp. 58-74. ISSN 0128-5157 http://ejournal.ukm.my/3l/issue/view/972
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description	Citation, as a central and integral issue in academic writing, has been the focus of many recent scholarly articles to highlight the significant role of this discursive practice in the realm of research article writing. Nonetheless, most of the previous studies, with notable exceptions, examined disciplinary influences on citation practices independently of ethnolinguistic influences, and vice versa. The present study investigates the doubly contrastive language-discipline perspective on the one hand and draws a distinction between disciplinary cultures and national cultures on the other. A corpus of 240 research articles sampled from leading Persian and English language medium journals of applied linguistics and psychology as representatives of soft sciences, and computer engineering and mechanical engineering as representatives of hard sciences, was examined drawing on Coffin‟s (2009) integrative analytic framework. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of the several aspects of citation features of Bakhtinian dialogism demonstrated some cross-disciplinary and cross-linguistic similarities and differences. Pedagogical implications derived from these findings are discussed.
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author	Shooshtari, Zohreh Gooniband Jalilifar, Alireza Shahri, Somaiyeh
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author_facet	Shooshtari, Zohreh Gooniband Jalilifar, Alireza Shahri, Somaiyeh
author_sort	Shooshtari, Zohreh Gooniband
title	Ethnolinguistic influence on citation in English and Persian hard and soft science research articles
title_short	Ethnolinguistic influence on citation in English and Persian hard and soft science research articles
title_full	Ethnolinguistic influence on citation in English and Persian hard and soft science research articles
title_fullStr	Ethnolinguistic influence on citation in English and Persian hard and soft science research articles
title_full_unstemmed	Ethnolinguistic influence on citation in English and Persian hard and soft science research articles
title_sort	ethnolinguistic influence on citation in english and persian hard and soft science research articles
publisher	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate	2017
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Ethnolinguistic influence on citation in English and Persian hard and soft science research articles

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