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Genre awareness and rhetorical appropriacy: manipulation of information structure by NS and NNS scientists in the international conference setting
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In: ISSN: 0889-4906 ; English for Specific Purposes ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00275961 ; English for Specific Purposes, Elsevier, 2005, 24 (1), pp.41-64. ⟨10.1016/j.esp.2003.09.003⟩ (2005)
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International audience ; Acquiring proficiency in different discourse genres involves an awareness of which syntactic structures are the most appropriate to the communicative context and purpose. This article examines two scientific research genres – conference proceedings articles and conference presentations – and compares the syntactic behaviour of a group of native speaker (NS) scientists with that of non-native speaker (NNS) scientists. The aim of the study is to investigate whether NNS scientists are able to adapt their syntax to the specific discourse requirements of each genre. The comparison is made from the point of view of information structure. In English, certain specialised syntactic structures, such as passives, clefts, inversion, and extraposition, afford a certain latitude on the discursive level, enabling the enunciator to orient the informational weight of clauses according to the effect required. The findings clearly indicate that while NS scientists manipulate information structure in a context- and genre-sensitive way, NNS scientists show much less grammatical adaptability to the information packaging requirements of the discourse genre, particularly in their oral presentations. It is argued that this has a negative impact on the rhetorical appropriacy and persuasiveness of their discourse.
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[SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics; Extraposition; Information structure; Inversion; NNS discourse; NS; Passive; Pragmatic competence; Pseudo-clefts; Scientific genres
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URL: https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00275961v2/document
https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00275961
https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00275961v2/file/Espj2.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esp.2003.09.003
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Specialised syntax for specialised texts ? An examination of the preferred syntactic patterns in 2 agnate scientific genres : proceedings articles and conference presentations
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In: GLAT-BARCELONA 2004 : Groupe de Linguistique Appliquée des Télécommunications ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00276943 ; GLAT-BARCELONA 2004 : Groupe de Linguistique Appliquée des Télécommunications, May 2004, Barcelone, Spain. pp.3-18 (2004)
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Structure informationnelle et genre : le cas de la communication de congrès
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In: Structure informationnelle et particules énonciatives : essai de typologie ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00291602 ; Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest; Shirley Carter-Thomas. Structure informationnelle et particules énonciatives : essai de typologie, 1-2, L'Harmattan, pp.137-167, 2004, Grammaire & cognition, 2-7475-5888-6 (2004)
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Syntactic differences in oral and written scientific discourse: the role of information structure
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In: ISSN: 2108-6354 ; EISSN: 2108-6354 ; ASp - La revue du GERAS ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00199788 ; ASp - La revue du GERAS, revue.org (en ligne) / Bordeaux : GERAS (imprimé), 2001, pp.19-37. ⟨10.4000/asp.1752⟩ (2001)
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