Rhetorical Variation in Medical Article Abstracts Written in English and Persian

  • سال انتشار: 1391
  • محل انتشار: فصلنامه آموزش مهارتهای زبان، دوره: 30، شماره: 4
  • کد COI اختصاصی: JR_JTLS-30-4_006
  • زبان مقاله: انگلیسی
  • تعداد مشاهده: 389
دانلود فایل این مقاله

نویسندگان

Mohammad Reza Talebinezhad

Associate Professor Islamic Azad University, Shahreza Branch

Zahra Arbabi

M. A., TEFL Islamic Azad University, Shahreza Branch

Saeed Taki

Assistant Professor Islamic Azad University, Shahreza Branch

Mahmood Akhlaghi

Associate Professor Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences

چکیده

The present study aimed at finding structural variations in the translated abstracts from Persian into English and comparing them with abstracts originally written in English and published in international journals in the area of medical sciences. To do this, ۶۴ medical article abstracts (۳۲ in Iranian journals, ۳۲ in international journals) were analyzed and compared on the basis of Swales’ model (۱۹۹۰). More detailed analysis was done in the Introduction unit regarding CARS model (Swales, ۱۹۹۰) and also language features of each unit were identified. The IMRC (Introduction, Methods, Results, Conclusion) sequence was considered as the structural conventions for the analysis. The results showed that in terms of structural units, there was a significant difference in using the Methods unit between the two groups of abstracts (p= ۰.۰۰۲). Some variations were observed in the Introduction unit and language features. The data revealed that the translated abstracts from Persian into English in research medical articles meet the determined criteria for scientific writing while the original ones often ignore the criteria, although they are linguistically superior to the original English ones.

کلیدواژه ها

abstract, IMRC sequence, CARS model, structural unit

اطلاعات بیشتر در مورد COI

COI مخفف عبارت CIVILICA Object Identifier به معنی شناسه سیویلیکا برای اسناد است. COI کدی است که مطابق محل انتشار، به مقالات کنفرانسها و ژورنالهای داخل کشور به هنگام نمایه سازی بر روی پایگاه استنادی سیویلیکا اختصاص می یابد.

کد COI به مفهوم کد ملی اسناد نمایه شده در سیویلیکا است و کدی یکتا و ثابت است و به همین دلیل همواره قابلیت استناد و پیگیری دارد.