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Issues of textual hybridity in a major academic genre: PhD dissertations vs. research articles
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O trabalho apresenta as propriedades partilhadas pelos planos de texto de teses de doutoramento e de artigos científicos. A análise combina conceitos do Interacionismo Sociodiscursivo (Bronckart, 1996) e da Teoria do Texto – parâmetro de género, mecanismo de realização textual e marcador de género (Coutinho e Miranda 2009). No corpus de 130 teses da Universidade de Coimbra (2003-2012) foram identificados quatro tipos de planos de texto: estruturação por tópicos, IMRDC, (Introdução–Metodologia–Resultados–Discussão–Conclusão), antológico e misto (Swales, 2004; Santos e Silva, aceite). Os textos evidenciam dois tipos de hibridismo: mistura e encaixe de géneros (Mäntynen & Shore, 2014). As teses de ciências sociais e humanas partilham a estruturação por tópicos com os artigos dessas áreas disciplinares. Nas teses de ciências de base experimental predominam planos IMRDC (idênticos aos dos artigos dessas áreas) e antológicos (que incluem os artigos já publicados/submetidos), evidenciando-se no segundo caso uma dupla relação de hibridismo. Consequentemente, questiona-se a delimitação entre os dois géneros, e conclui-se que os objetivos, o contexto institucional, a extensão e a etiquetagem metatextual poderão ser os únicos critérios distintivos entre a tese e o artigo científico.
The paper presents a study on properties shared by text plans of PhD dissertations and research articles. The analysis combines concepts from the Interactionnisme Sociodiscursif (Bronckart, 1996), and Text Theory - genre parameter, textual realization device and genre marker (Coutinho & Miranda, 2009). In the 130 University of Coimbra PhD dissertations (2003-2012) corpus, there are four types of text plans: topic-based, IMRDC (Introduction – Methods – Results – Discussion – Conclusion), anthology and mixed plans (Swales, 2004; Santos & Silva, accepted). Texts show two types of hybridity: genre blending and genre embedding (Mäntynen & Shore, 2014). In Social Sciences and Humanities, topic-based plans share the typical structure of these areas research articles. IMRDC are dominant in Sciences PhD dissertations, as in these areas research articles. There are also anthology plans, which sustain a double relationship with research articles by repeating already published, accepted or submitted texts. These hybridity issues challenge the separation between genres. Pragmatic aims, institutional context, text length and metatextual genre label may thus be the only parameters that separate both genres.
The paper presents a study on properties shared by text plans of PhD dissertations and research articles. The analysis combines concepts from the Interactionnisme Sociodiscursif (Bronckart, 1996), and Text Theory - genre parameter, textual realization device and genre marker (Coutinho & Miranda, 2009). In the 130 University of Coimbra PhD dissertations (2003-2012) corpus, there are four types of text plans: topic-based, IMRDC (Introduction – Methods – Results – Discussion – Conclusion), anthology and mixed plans (Swales, 2004; Santos & Silva, accepted). Texts show two types of hybridity: genre blending and genre embedding (Mäntynen & Shore, 2014). In Social Sciences and Humanities, topic-based plans share the typical structure of these areas research articles. IMRDC are dominant in Sciences PhD dissertations, as in these areas research articles. There are also anthology plans, which sustain a double relationship with research articles by repeating already published, accepted or submitted texts. These hybridity issues challenge the separation between genres. Pragmatic aims, institutional context, text length and metatextual genre label may thus be the only parameters that separate both genres.
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Discurso académico Género Tese de doutoramento Artigo científico Hibridismo Academic discourse Genre PhD dissertation Research article Hybridity
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Santos, Joana Vieira; Silva, Paulo Nunes da - Issues of textual hybridity in a major academic genre: PhD dissertations vs. research articles. "Redis [Em linha]: Revista de Estudos do Discurso". ISSN 2183-3958. Nº 5 (2016), p. 171-193
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Centro de Linguistica da Universidade do Porto (CLUP)