structural patterns in empirical research articles a cross disciplinary study

• Search Menu

Sign in through your institution

• Advance articles
• Author Guidelines
• Submission Site
• Open Access
• Why Submit?
• About Applied Linguistics
• Editorial Board
• Advertising and Corporate Services
• Journals Career Network
• Self-Archiving Policy
• Dispatch Dates
• Terms and Conditions
• Journals on Oxford Academic
• Books on Oxford Academic
• < Previous

The Theoretical Research Article as a Reflection of Disciplinary Practices: The Case of Pure Mathematics

• Article contents
• Figures & tables
• Supplementary Data

Maria Kuteeva, Lisa McGrath, The Theoretical Research Article as a Reflection of Disciplinary Practices: The Case of Pure Mathematics, Applied Linguistics , Volume 36, Issue 2, May 2015, Pages 215–235, https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amt042

• Permissions Icon Permissions

Recent years have seen an interest in the generic structure of empirical research articles across a variety of disciplines. However, significantly less attention has been given to theoretical articles. This study aims to begin to address this imbalance by presenting the results of an investigation into the organizational and rhetorical structure of theoretical pure mathematics research articles. The data set combines a close analysis of 22 peer-reviewed articles and semi-structured interviews with their authors. While there is considerable variation in terms of the major section headings and content, the results reveal an overall structure that differs from a typical empirical research article. We argue that this alternative structure is produced by the dual argumentation—mathematical and meta-mathematical—which runs throughout the text. Moreover, triangulation with the interview data indicates that the structural patterns of the theoretical pure mathematics research article can be viewed as a reflection of the research practices and epistemology of the discipline.

Personal account

• Sign in with email/username & password
• Get email alerts
• Save searches
• Purchase content
• Activate your purchase/trial code
• Add your ORCID iD

Institutional access

Sign in with a library card.

• Sign in with username/password
• Recommend to your librarian
• Institutional account management
• Get help with access

Access to content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases. If you are a member of an institution with an active account, you may be able to access content in one of the following ways:

IP based access

Typically, access is provided across an institutional network to a range of IP addresses. This authentication occurs automatically, and it is not possible to sign out of an IP authenticated account.

Choose this option to get remote access when outside your institution. Shibboleth/Open Athens technology is used to provide single sign-on between your institution’s website and Oxford Academic.

• Click Sign in through your institution.
• Select your institution from the list provided, which will take you to your institution's website to sign in.
• When on the institution site, please use the credentials provided by your institution. Do not use an Oxford Academic personal account.
• Following successful sign in, you will be returned to Oxford Academic.

If your institution is not listed or you cannot sign in to your institution’s website, please contact your librarian or administrator.

Enter your library card number to sign in. If you cannot sign in, please contact your librarian.

Society Members

Society member access to a journal is achieved in one of the following ways:

Sign in through society site

Many societies offer single sign-on between the society website and Oxford Academic. If you see ‘Sign in through society site’ in the sign in pane within a journal:

• Click Sign in through society site.
• When on the society site, please use the credentials provided by that society. Do not use an Oxford Academic personal account.

If you do not have a society account or have forgotten your username or password, please contact your society.

Sign in using a personal account

Some societies use Oxford Academic personal accounts to provide access to their members. See below.

A personal account can be used to get email alerts, save searches, purchase content, and activate subscriptions.

Some societies use Oxford Academic personal accounts to provide access to their members.

Viewing your signed in accounts

Click the account icon in the top right to:

• View your signed in personal account and access account management features.
• View the institutional accounts that are providing access.

Signed in but can't access content

Oxford Academic is home to a wide variety of products. The institutional subscription may not cover the content that you are trying to access. If you believe you should have access to that content, please contact your librarian.

For librarians and administrators, your personal account also provides access to institutional account management. Here you will find options to view and activate subscriptions, manage institutional settings and access options, access usage statistics, and more.

Short-term Access

To purchase short-term access, please sign in to your personal account above.

Don't already have a personal account? Register

Email alerts

Citing articles via, looking for your next opportunity.

• Recommend to your Library

Affiliations

• Online ISSN 1477-450X
• Print ISSN 0142-6001
• Copyright © 2024 Oxford University Press
• About Oxford Academic
• Publish journals with us
• University press partners
• What we publish
• New features  
• Open access
• Rights and permissions
• Accessibility
• Advertising
• Media enquiries
• Oxford University Press
• Oxford Languages
• University of Oxford

Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide

• Copyright © 2024 Oxford University Press
• Cookie settings
• Cookie policy
• Privacy policy
• Legal notice

This Feature Is Available To Subscribers Only

Sign In or Create an Account

This PDF is available to Subscribers Only

For full access to this pdf, sign in to an existing account, or purchase an annual subscription.

Structural patterns in empirical research articles: A cross-disciplinary study

L Lin ， S Evans

展开 

This paper presents an analysis of the major generic structures of empirical research articles (RAs), with a particular focus on disciplinary variation and the relationship between the adjacent sections in the introductory and concluding parts. The findings were derived from a close "manual" analysis of 433 recent empirical RAs from high-impact English-language journals in 39 disciplines in the fields of engineering, applied sciences, social sciences and the humanities. This analysis reveals that while many empirical RAs follow the "standard" Introduction–Method–Results–Discussion (IMRD) pattern, this structure is not the default option for organizing such studies. The findings indicate that the most frequently used structural pattern is Introduction–Literature Review–Method–Results and Discussion–Conclusion (ILM[RD]C). The other prominent patterns found in the corpus are IM[RD]C, IMRDC, ILMRDC and ILMRD. The paper identifies and highlights the importance of the sections that are not fully accounted for in the conventional IMRD framework, namely the Literature Review (L), the merged (as opposed to separated) Results and Discussion [RD], and the Conclusion (C). The paper concludes by discussing the implications of the study for academic writing research as well as the design of RA writing courses and materials for research students and early-career academics.

Advanced EAP Disciplinary variation Empirical research articles Generic structure IMRD Research writing

10.1016/j.esp.2011.10.002

通过 文献互助 平台发起求助，成功后即可免费获取论文全文。

我们已与文献出版商建立了直接购买合作。

你可以通过身份认证进行实名认证，认证成功后本次下载的费用将由您所在的图书馆支付

您可以直接购买此文献，1~5分钟即可下载全文，部分资源由于网络原因可能需要更长时间，请您耐心等待哦~

百度学术集成海量学术资源，融合人工智能、深度学习、大数据分析等技术，为科研工作者提供全面快捷的学术服务。在这里我们保持学习的态度，不忘初心，砥砺前行。 了解更多>>

©2024 Baidu 百度学术声明 使用百度前必读

• Structure of Research Papers
• Evaluative Resources for Critical Thinking
• Introduction
• Literature Review
• Methodology & Participants
• Results & Discussion
• References & Links
• Contributions
• Participation
• MA Literature Review

Structure of an MA Research Paper

Research papers is distinct from other text types owing to its components giving shape to its characteristic text structure. The property of a text is regarded as the "generic structure" to serve its distinct social purposes and the readers within the target community, according to Halliday (1978), the renowned linguist who has been exploring the nature and functions of genre. Hasan (1984a, 1984b), Halliday and Hasan (1989) further investigated the generic structure of texts proposing the "generic structure potential" (or GSP) theory, that (1) the text features could be used to predict the structure and the sequence and order of the elements in the structure; (2) every text has obligatory and optional elements determining the GSP; and (3) the obligatory elements and their sequence define the genre of the text, where the optional elements function as variations within the same genre.

Put simply, given the same genre, everyone has a different representation of such genre in his or her own text. Despite the differences, all the texts share a certain extent of similarities such as the overall framework, the necessary elements and the sequence of the elements constructing the text structure. The elements, or the generic stages or schematic structure proposed by Martin (1993), with the choice of lexical items and sentence structure at different stages thus determine the organisation of a text.

Research papers, as written text of the professional and technical field with the audience from the similar background (students, teachers and professionals), serve the functions of persuasion, evaluation, reporting research results and discussion. The following are the generic stages of a research paper:

Value & Significance ^ Review of Literature ^ Method of Research ^ Report & Analysis of Findings ^ Discussion & Conclusion

Lin and Evans (2011) conducted a corpus study compiled from a collection of published research articles, and found the general structure of the research papers being

Introduction-Literature Review-Methodology-Results and Discussion-Conclusion (ILM[RD]C)

with other optional elements merged into major stages.

For example, the Methodology section coalesced with Participants as the object of study of the research papers often involved observations based on teacher and learner activities in the classroom; Conclusion embraced other stages such as Implication, Suggestions, Limitations and Applications (Nwogu, 1997; Swales, 2004).

In the next section, we will see how each generic stage serves its rhetorical functions with the distribution and patterning of lexico-grammatical items of evaluation, persuasion and critique.

Halliday, M.A.K. (1978). Language as Social Semiotic , London: Edward Arnold.

Halliday, M.A.K. & Hasan, R. (1989). Language, context, and text: Aspects of language in a social-semiotic perspective (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Halliday, M.A.K. & Martin, J. (1993). Writing Science: Literacy and discursive power . Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.

Hasan, R. (1984a). Coherence and cohesive harmony. In J. Flood (ed.), Understanding reading compreshension: cognition, language and the structure of prose. Newark: Internation Reading Association.

Hasan, R. (1984b). The nursery tales as a genre. Nottingham Linguistic Circular , 13, pp. 71-102.

Lin, L. & Evans, S. (2011). Structural patterns in empirical research articles: A cross-disciplinary study. English for Specific Purposes, 31(3), pp. 150-160.

Nwogu, . (1997). THe medical research paper: structures and functions. English for Specific Purposes , 16(7), pp. 119-137.

Swales, J. (2004). Research genres: Explorations and applications . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Copyright @ 2012 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Department of English. All rights reserved. Email:  [email protected]        Tel: (852) 2766 4384/7572      Fax: (852) 2333 6569

Moves in the Sections "Conclusion" and "Conclusions" in Applied Linguistics Research Articles

• Monta Farneste University of Latvia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0752-5021

Interest in ‘unconventional’ sections of research articles has lately increased, as it is necessary to reveal more information about their generic structure. These studies are especially vital for non-native novice researchers. The present paper continues the investigation of move-step distribution in the Conclusion section (e.g. Yang and Allison, 2003; Moritz, Meurer and Kuerten Dellagnelo, 2008). This time thirty-six research articles were chosen from two journals in applied linguistics. The two-level analysis demonstrates that there is only a slight difference between move-step distribution in the sections labelled with different headings – Conclusion and Conclusions . It was confirmed that applied linguists employ a variety of move-step sequences in the Conclusion(s) sections, and therefore it is necessary to devote more attention to acceptable varieties in ‘unconventional’ sections in academic writing classes at the tertiary level.

Bhatia, V.K. (2006) Analysing genre: some conceptual issues. In P. Martin (ed.) Academic Writing in Context. Implications and Applications. Papers in Honour of Tony Dudley-Evans (pp. 79–92). London and New York: Continuum.

Kanoksilapatham, B. (2005) Rhetorical structure of biochemistry research articles. English for Specific Purposes, 24: 269–292.

Kanoksilapatham, B. (2007) Writing scientific research articles in Thai and English: Similarities and differences. Silpakorn University International Journal, 7: 172–203.

Kashiha, H. (2015) Recurrent formulas and moves in writing research article con­clu­sions among native and nonnative writers. 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 21(1): 47–59.

Kwan, B.S.C., Chan, H. and Lam, C. (2012) Evaluating prior scholarship in literature reviews of research articles: A comparative study of practices in two research paradigms. English for Specific Purposes, 31: 188–201.

Li, L.-J. and Ge, G.-C. (2009) Genre analysis: Structural and linguistic evolution of the English-medium medical research article (1985–2004). English for Specific Purposes, 28: 93–104.

Lim, J. M.-H. (2006) Method sections of management research articles: A pedagogically motivated qualitative study. English for Specific Purposes, 25(3), 282–309.

Lim, J. M.-H. (2010) Commenting on research results in applied linguistics and education: A comparative genre-based investigation. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 9: 280–294.

Lim, J. M. H. (2007) Analysing recommendations for future research: an investigation into a hybrid sub-genre. In R. Wilkinson, and V. Zegers (eds.) Realizing Content and Language Integration in Higher Education (pp. 131–154). Maastricht: Maastricht University.

Lin, L. and Evans, S. (2012) Structural patterns in empirical research articles: A cross-disciplinary study. English for Specific Purposes, 31: 150–160.

Maswana, S., Kanamaru, T. and Tajino, A. (2015) Move analysis of research articles across five engineering fields: What they share and what they do not. Ampersand, 2: 1–11.

Morales, R. C. (2012) Conclusions in research articles: A Filipino-Japanese contrastive rhetoric study. Philippine ESL Journal, 8, February: 83–95.

Moritz, M. E. W., Meurer, J. L. and Kuerten Dellagnelo, A. (2008) Conclusions as components of research articles across Portuguese as a native language, English as a native language and English as a foreign language: A contrastive genre study. The ESPecialist, 29 (2): 233–253.

Samraj, B. (2002) Introductions in research articles: Variations across disciplines. English for Specific Purposes, 21: 1–17.

Stoller, F. L. and Robinson, M. S. (2013) Chemistry journal articles: An interdisciplinary approach to move analysis with pedagogical aims. English for Specific Purposes, 32: 45–57.

Swales, J. M. (1990) Genre Analysis. English in Academic and Research Settings. Cambridge: University Press.

Swales, J. M. and Feak, C. B. (1994) Academic Writing for Graduate Students. A Course for Nonnative Speakers of English. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Tessuto, G. (2015) Generic structure and rhetorical moves in English-language empirical law research articles: Sites of interdisciplinary and interdiscursive cross-over. English for Specific Purposes, 37: 13–26.

Yağiz, O., Ötügen, R., Kaya, F. and Aydin, B. (2014) A literature review analysis of the Turkish scholars’ research articles in ELT and applied linguistics. 14th International Language, Literature and Stylistics Symposium. Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, 158: 389–393.

Young, R. and Allison, D. (2003) Research articles in the applied linguistics: Moving from results to conclusions. English for Specific Purposes, 22 (4): 365–385.

How to Cite

• Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS)

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License .

Most read articles by the same author(s)

• Monta Farneste, Vineta Apse, Challenges and Opportunities of English Grammar Acquisition by Distance at the Tertiary Level , Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture: Vol. 11 (2021): Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture
• Vineta Apse, Monta Farneste, Common Errors in the Use of English Verb Forms , Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture: Vol. 4 (2014): Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture
• Vineta Apse, Monta Farneste, Error Analysis of the Use of Linking Words and Phrases in Tertiary Level Essays , Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture: Vol. 8 (2018): Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture
• Vineta Apse, Monta Farneste, Fostering Independent Learning of English Verb Tense, Aspect and Voice Forms at the Tertiary Level , Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture: Vol. 10 (2020): Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture
• Monta Farneste, Olga Pašinska, Developing Peer Corrective Skills in Business Letter Writing in English as a Foreign Language , Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture: Vol. 9 (2019): Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture
• Monta Farneste, Moves in The Introductions of Problem-Solution Essays , Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture: Vol. 1 (2011): Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture
• Monta Farneste, Moves in the Introduction Sections of Applied Linguistics Research Articles , Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture: Vol. 5 (2015): Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture
• Monta Farneste, Usage of Comparison/Contrast Pattern in Undergraduate Academic Essays , Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture: Vol. 2 (2012): Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture
• Monta Farneste, What is the Meaning of School/University Essay and Related Terms in English and Latvian? , Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture: Vol. 3 (2013): Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture

All the articles published in the journal can be accessed freely. 

• DOI: 10.1080/09296174.2016.1169848
• Corpus ID: 41661497

Analysing Texts through their Linguistic Properties: A Cross-disciplinary Study

• Reza Khany , Neda Babanezhad Kafshgar
• Published in Journal of Quantitative… 2 July 2016
• Linguistics, Physics

8 Citations

Corpus-based development of syntactic complexity in efl writing, dynamic lexical features of phd theses across disciplines: a text mining approach.

• Highly Influenced

EXPRES Corpus for A Field-specific Automated Exploratory Study of L2 English Expert Scientific Writing

A corpus-based study of the dependency distance differences in english academic writing, a corpus-based comparison of syntactic complexity in academic writing of l1 and l2 english students across years and disciplines, how is information content distributed in ra introductions across disciplines an entropy-based approach, diachronic changes in syntactic complexity of science research articles: a comparative study of medicine and mechanical engineering, fine-grained measures of syntactic complexity in the discussion section of research articles: the effect of discipline and language background, 71 references, lexico-grammatical properties of abstracts and research articles. a corpus-based study of scientific discourse from multiple disciplines., a corpus-based evaluation of syntactic complexity measures as indices of college-level esl writers' language development, communicative moves in the discussion section of research articles, using computerized corpus analysis to investigate the textlinguistic discourse moves of a genre., the effects of syntactic and lexical complexity on the comprehension of elementary science texts, writing development in four genres from grades three to seven: syntactic complexity and genre differentiation, computational assessment of lexical differences in l1 and l2 writing, a corpus-based investigation of syntactic complexity, fluency, sentence variety, and sentence development in l2 genre writing, syntactic complexity measures and their relationship to l2 proficiency: a research synthesis of college-level l2 writing., structural patterns in empirical research articles: a cross-disciplinary study, related papers.

Showing 1 through 3 of 0 Related Papers

Citation Functions in the Opening Phase of Research Articles: A Corpus-based Comparative Study

• First Online: 24 June 2020

Cite this chapter

• Kathy Ling Lin 5 &
• Susie Xin Sui 6  

Part of the book series: The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series ((TMAKHLFLS))

415 Accesses

5 Citations

The substantial rise in academic citations documented over the past decades (Hyland and Jiang 2019), commensurate with an accelerating accumulation of knowledge, has testified their importance in contemporary research writing. Among various parameters related to citation practices, such as linguistic realizations of citations and citation motives, rhetorical functions of citations have been much less studied than their grammatical structure, forms and signals (most prominently being citation verbs).

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Subscribe and save.

• Get 10 units per month
• Download Article/Chapter or Ebook
• 1 Unit = 1 Article or 1 Chapter
• Cancel anytime
• Available as PDF
• Read on any device
• Instant download
• Own it forever
• Available as EPUB and PDF
• Compact, lightweight edition
• Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
• Free shipping worldwide - see info
• Durable hardcover edition

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

An analysis of citation functions in the humanities and social sciences research from the perspective of problematic citation analysis assumptions

A quantitative exploration on reasons for citing articles from the perspective of cited authors, the scholarly communication of economic knowledge: a citation analysis of google scholar.

Borg, E. (2000). Citation practices in academic writing. In P. Thompson (Ed.), Patterns ad perspectives: Insights for EAP writing practice (pp. 26–44). Reading: CALS, The University of Reading.

Google Scholar  

Case, D. O., & Higgins, G. M. (2000). How can we investigate citation behavior? A study of reasons for citing literature in communication. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51, 635–645.

Article   Google Scholar  

Frost, C. O. (1979). The use of citations in literary research: A preliminary classification of citation functions. Library Quarterly, 49, 399–414.

Harwood, N. (2008). Publication outlets and their effect on academic writers’ citations. Scientometrics, 77 (2), 253–265.

Harwood, N. (2009). An interview-based study of the functions of citations in academic writing across two disciplines. Journal of Pragmatics, 41 (3), 497–518.

Harwood, N., & Petrić, B. (2012). Performance in the citing behavior of two student writers. Written Communication, 29 (1) , 55–103.

Hunston, S. (2002). Corpora in applied linguistics . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Book   Google Scholar  

Hyland, K. (1999). Academic attribution: Citation and the construction of disciplinary knowledge. Applied Linguistics, 20 (3), 341–367.

Hyland, K. (2002). Activity and evaluation: Reporting practices in academic writing. In J. Flowerdew (Ed.), Academic discourse (pp. 115–130). Harlow: Pearson Education Limited.

Hyland, K. & Jiang, F. K. (2019). Points of reference: Changing patterns of academic citation.  Applied Linguistics , 40 (1): 64-85. 

Kwan, B. S. C., & Chan, H. (2014). An investigation of source use in the results and the closing sections of empirical articles in Information Systems: In search of a functional-semantic citation typology for pedagogical purposes. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 14, 29–47.

Lin, L. (2014a). Variability in the rhetorical structure of research article introductions: The case of civil engineering. Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics, 27 (2), 405–432.

Lin, L. (2014b). Innovations in structuring article introductions: The case of applied linguistics. Ibérica, 28 (2), 129–154.

Lin, L., & Evans, S. (2012). Structural patterns in empirical research articles: A cross-disciplinary study. English for Specific Purposes, 31 (3), 150–160.

Mansourizadeh, K., & Ahmad, U. (2011). Citation practices among non-native expert and novice scientific writers. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 10 (3), 152–161.

Martinez, I. A. (2008). Building consensus in science: Resources for intertexual dialog in biology research articles. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 7 (4) , 268–276.

Petrić, B. (2007). Rhetorical functions of citations in high- and low-rated master’s theses. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 6 (3), 238–253.

Petrić, B., & Harwood, N. (2013). Task requirements, task representation, and citation functions: An interview-based study of the citing behavior of a successful L2 student writer. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 12 (2) , 110–124.

Samraj, B. (2013). Form and function of citations in discussion sections of master’s theses and research articles. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 12 (4), 299–310.

Shadish, W. R., Tolliver, D., Gray, M., & Sen Gupta, S. K. (1995). Author judgments about works they cite: Three studies from psychology journals. Social Studies of Science, 25 (3), 477–498.

Swales, J. M. (1986). Citation analysis and discourse analysis. Applied Linguistics, 7, 39–56.

Swales, J. M. (1990). Genre analysis: English in academic and research settings . Cambridge, U.K.; New York: Cambridge University Press.

Swales, J. M. (2014). Variation in citational practice in a corpus of student biology papers: From parenthetical plonking to intertextual storytelling. Written Communication, 31 (1), 118–141.

Thomas, S., & Hawes, T. P. (1994). Reporting verbs in medical journal articles. English for Specific Purposes, 13 (2), 129–148.

Thompson, P. (2000). Citation practices in Ph.D. theses. In L. Burnard & T. McEnery (Eds.), Rethinking language pedagogy from a corpus perspective . Frankfurt: Peter Lang.

Thompson, P. (2001). A pedagogically-motivated corpus-based examination of Ph.D. theses: Macrostructure, citation practices and uses of modal verbs. Doctoral dissertation, The University of Reading.

Thompson, P. (2005). Points of focus and position: Intertextual reference in Ph.D. theses. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 4 (4), 307–323.

Thompson, P., & Tribble, C. (2001). Looking at citations: Using corpora in English for academic purposes. Language Learning and Technology, 5 (3), 91–105.

Download references

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by a grant awarded by Shanghai Municipal Education Commission and Shanghai Education Development Foundation (15CG10) and a Shanghai Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Sciences Research Grant (2017EYY007).

Author information

Authors and affiliations.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Kathy Ling Lin

Capital Normal University, Beijing, China

Susie Xin Sui

You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Kathy Ling Lin .

Editor information

Editors and affiliations.

School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Bingjun Yang

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2020 Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.

About this chapter

Lin, K.L., Sui, S.X. (2020). Citation Functions in the Opening Phase of Research Articles: A Corpus-based Comparative Study. In: Yang, B., Li, W. (eds) Corpus-based Approaches to Grammar, Media and Health Discourses. The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4771-3_10

Download citation

DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4771-3_10

Published : 24 June 2020

Publisher Name : Springer, Singapore

Print ISBN : 978-981-15-4770-6

Online ISBN : 978-981-15-4771-3

eBook Packages : Religion and Philosophy Philosophy and Religion (R0)

Share this chapter

Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content:

Sorry, a shareable link is not currently available for this article.

Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative

• Publish with us

Policies and ethics

• Find a journal
• Track your research