Analysis of Argumentation in the Discussion Sections of Published Articles in ESP Journal: A Diachronic Corpus-Based Approach

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Argumentation Pub Date : 2022-11-18 DOI:10.1007/s10503-022-09588-0

Saleh Arizavi, Alireza Jalilifar, A. Mehdi Riazi

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Abstract

Argumentation has remained under-researched in studies analyzing academic journal publications despite its importance in academic writing. This paper reports a study in which we investigated stereotypical argumentative trends, lexico-grammatical features, and interactional metadiscourse markers in 354 research article free-standing discussion sections from the journal of ESP over forty years. The field of ESP was chosen because of its maturity, which has given substance to a dynamic ground for arguments. We drew on the pragma-dialectical approach to analyzing argumentations in the corpus. Findings indicated that due to the argumentative nature of the discussion section, certain argumentative trends recurred more often. The analysis of the lexico-grammatical features and metadiscourse markers of the standpoints also showed patterns of variability over time. The study concludes that it is imperative to incorporate relevant facets from various argumentation models to construct a comprehensive argumentation theory and gain deeper insights into argumentation in academic writing.

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ESP期刊发表文章讨论部分的论证分析：基于长期语料库的方法

尽管论证在学术写作中很重要，但在分析学术期刊出版物的研究中，它仍然没有得到充分的研究。本文报道了一项研究，在该研究中，我们在《ESP》杂志40多年来的354篇独立讨论文章中调查了刻板的议论文趋势、词典语法特征和互动元话语标记。选择ESP领域是因为它的成熟，这为争论提供了一个动态的基础。我们借鉴了语用辩证法来分析语料库中的议论文。研究结果表明，由于讨论部分的争论性质，某些争论趋势更频繁地出现。对这些观点的词典语法特征和元话语标记的分析也显示出随时间变化的模式。本研究的结论是，必须结合各种论证模式的相关方面来构建一个全面的论证理论，并对学术写作中的论证有更深入的了解。

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Argumentation Multiple-

CiteScore

2.20

自引率

16.70%

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期刊介绍： Argumentation is an international and interdisciplinary journal. Its aim is to gather academic contributions from a wide range of scholarly backgrounds and approaches to reasoning, natural inference and persuasion: communication, rhetoric (classical and modern), linguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, psychology, philosophy, logic (formal and informal), critical thinking, history and law. Its scope includes a diversity of interests, varying from philosophical, theoretical and analytical to empirical and practical topics. Argumentation publishes papers, book reviews, a yearly bibliography, and announcements of conferences and seminars.To be considered for publication in the journal, a paper must satisfy all of these criteria:1. Report research that is within the journals’ scope: concentrating on argumentation 2. Pose a clear and relevant research question 3. Make a contribution to the literature that connects with the state of the art in the field of argumentation theory 4. Be sound in methodology and analysis 5. Provide appropriate evidence and argumentation for the conclusions 6. Be presented in a clear and intelligible fashion in standard English