German English-medium linguistics journal abstracts over the last 30 years : Quantitative and qualitative structural developments
Creators: name: Ivanova, Marina
Publisher: name: Jan Kochanowski University Press
Year: 2024

description: Contents 7 Josef Schmied, Marina Bondi, Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova, Carmen Pérez-Llantada, Language variation and change in academic writing: Recent trends through globalisation and digitalisation 25 Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova, Academic writing conventions in Czech English-medium linguistics journals: Continuity and change over the last 30 years 55 Marina Bondi, Jessica Jane Nocella, Academic writing conventions in English-medium linguistics journals in Italy: Continuity and change over the last 30 years 89 Marina Ivanova, German English-medium linguistics journal abstracts over the last 30 years: Quantitative and qualitative structural developments 115 Giuliana Diani, Research article abstracts in English and Italian: Generic and cross-linguistic variation over the last 20 years 143 Krystyna Warchał, Concluding sections over 30 years of research writing: The case of a Polish scholar 169 Josef Schmied, Marina Ivanova, English MA theses at a German university before and after the Bologna reform: Comparing global rhetorical structures and stance in Linguistics and Cultural Studies 197 Tereza Guziurová, “The aim of this paper is…”: Frame markers in English as a lingua franca of academic writing 223 Enrique Lafuente Millán, European research project websites and corporate websites: Patterns of evaluation and genre evolution Varia 251 Cecilia Lazzeretti, Language, narrative and structure of story telling in museum communication: A diachronic approach 277 Gloria Mambelli, “It is a long road from sorrow to joy”: Metaphors of happiness and sadness in Late Modern English private correspondence 301 Giulia Rovelli, Towards a historical corpus of Canadian English letters and diaries 325 Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Acquiring epistolary literacy in nineteenth-century New England Reviews 357 Michael Skiba, Participial Prepositions and Conjunctions in the History of English, Munich: utzverlag, 2021, 235 pp. (Reviewed by Rafał Molencki, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
description: Abstracts are central to academic writing as they summarise and promote publications – this paper shows that the widespread use of abstracts started in the 90s and increased rapidly, becoming a standard. It analyses 593 articles with 555 abstracts from nine linguistics journals, affiliated with the Web of Science to German institutions. The focus is on global rhetorical structures adopted – from introduction/research questions to methods, results, discussions, and conclusions. Additionally, I identify trends in writers’ stance expression through selected metadiscourse features as expressed in subjects and verbs. The analyses demonstrate that abstracts from Germany have become more unified towards the scientific IMRAD model. This model, however, has been adapted to the advertising function of the abstract with a stronger emphasis on the authors’ contributions and article’s importance (especially in introductions, methods, and results) and rare discussions of conclusions and limitations. Thus, general academic writing structures have been adapted to genre-specific functional practices over the last 30 years.