Discursive Construction of the Significance in English and Turkish Psychology Theses: An Intercultural Rhetorical Analysis

Geçikli, Merve

Makale Tam Makale Uluslararası 2021 Açık erişimli

Discursive Construction of the Significance in English and Turkish Psychology Theses: An Intercultural Rhetorical Analysis

Atatürk Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi Cilt 25 · Sayı 2 · ss. 791–803 · 01.05.2021

Özet

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followed have seemingly varied to the contexts in which context-bound socio-discursive factors

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override. On this basis, in this paper, the researcher intended to analyse comparatively rhetorical

categories in the introductory parts of 30 master thesis written in Turkish and 30 master theses

written in English by Turkish researchers, and 30 master theses by native speakers of English in

the field of Psychology published between 2015-2020. Move 3 -Occupying the Niche- in Swales

CARS Model (2004) was sought within introductory parts in order to explore how authors in the

same field but different contexts deal with publicizing the significance and value of their study. The

analyses show that, despite small number of differences in frequency between two corpora, Move

3 is equally and frequently operated in introductory parts of psychology master theses by both

Turkish academics and native speakers of English. As regards Turkish ones, on the other hand,

the especially the frequency of those steps dealing with significance is quite less. These findings

indicate that, in discursive construction of the significance in the genre in question, for English

textx socio-pragmatic factors, that is motive to be recognized internationally, tend to prevail in

the rhetorical choices the writers do while structuring the discursive acts in the texts while for

local ones cultural facts are overriding.

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Atıf için künye

Geçikli, M. (2021). Discursive Construction of the Significance in English and Turkish Psychology Theses: An Intercultural Rhetorical Analysis. Atatürk Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 25(2), 791–803. https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/ataunisosbil

BibTeX

@article{gecikli2021-136537,
  author = {Geçikli, Merve},
  title = {Discursive Construction of the Significance in English and Turkish Psychology Theses: An Intercultural Rhetorical Analysis},
  journal = {Atatürk Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi},
  year = {2021},
  volume = {25},
  number = {2},
  pages = {791--803},
  issn = {1304-4990},
  url = {https://akademik.atauni.edu.tr/yayinlar/136537-discursive-construction-of-the-significance-in-english-and-turkish-psychology}
}