A Corpus Based Study of Citation Practices and Reporting Verbal Forms in Pakistani English Social Sciences Research Articles
An individual’s research is of no use unless and until it is put on the paper for the curious eyes and the critical minds. But to make a study persuasive and to put it in a context, one needs to have an integration of one’s ideas with the previously conducted studies. Such inte...
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| description | An individual’s research is of no use unless and until it is put on the paper for the curious eyes and the critical minds. But to make a study persuasive and to put it in a context, one needs to have an integration of one’s ideas with the previously conducted studies. Such integration of ideas helps the researchers to strengthen their point of view. For citation purpose, the use of reporting verbs carries different meanings and functions with it. The current paper is a corpus-based study, conducted to compile a corpus of literature review sections of Pakistani English research articles to explore the citation practices with a focus on different forms and functions of Reporting verbs as used in these sections. Using AntConc (3.2.1) and Sketch engine concordance program, a corpus of 157,997 words was searched to find different forms of Reporting verbs followed by a discussion of evaluative functions attached to these RVs. A total number of 65 Reporting verbs were identified used for 781 times occurring in different patterns. The evaluative functions attached to the RVs show the writers’ approval of the previous works. The absence of critical and counter-factive verbs shows that the writers did not criticize and synthesize the previous works. Only a few examples with the use of adverbials and few counter verbs show a critical stance of the writers. The study lays stress on the importance of the teaching and learning of Reporting verbs to master effective citation practices. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-12156d6740694a9d8cde3de82767882a2022-12-22T04:13:05ZengCorpus Research CenterCorporum2617-29172707-787X2019-12-01223854A Corpus Based Study of Citation Practices and Reporting Verbal Forms in Pakistani English Social Sciences Research ArticlesAsma Iqbal Kayani0Behzad Anwar1PhD Scholar, Mirpur University of Science & Technology, MirpurAssistant Professor, University of Gujrat, GujratAn individual’s research is of no use unless and until it is put on the paper for the curious eyes and the critical minds. But to make a study persuasive and to put it in a context, one needs to have an integration of one’s ideas with the previously conducted studies. Such integration of ideas helps the researchers to strengthen their point of view. For citation purpose, the use of reporting verbs carries different meanings and functions with it. The current paper is a corpus-based study, conducted to compile a corpus of literature review sections of Pakistani English research articles to explore the citation practices with a focus on different forms and functions of Reporting verbs as used in these sections. Using AntConc (3.2.1) and Sketch engine concordance program, a corpus of 157,997 words was searched to find different forms of Reporting verbs followed by a discussion of evaluative functions attached to these RVs. A total number of 65 Reporting verbs were identified used for 781 times occurring in different patterns. The evaluative functions attached to the RVs show the writers’ approval of the previous works. The absence of critical and counter-factive verbs shows that the writers did not criticize and synthesize the previous works. Only a few examples with the use of adverbials and few counter verbs show a critical stance of the writers. The study lays stress on the importance of the teaching and learning of Reporting verbs to master effective citation practices.https://journals.au.edu.pk/ojscrc/index.php/crc/article/view/256/156cognition actsdiscourse actsevaluative functionsintegral citationsreporting verbsresearch acts |
| spellingShingle | Asma Iqbal Kayani Behzad Anwar A Corpus Based Study of Citation Practices and Reporting Verbal Forms in Pakistani English Social Sciences Research Articles Corporum cognition acts discourse acts evaluative functions integral citations reporting verbs research acts |
| title | A Corpus Based Study of Citation Practices and Reporting Verbal Forms in Pakistani English Social Sciences Research Articles |
| title_full | A Corpus Based Study of Citation Practices and Reporting Verbal Forms in Pakistani English Social Sciences Research Articles |
| title_fullStr | A Corpus Based Study of Citation Practices and Reporting Verbal Forms in Pakistani English Social Sciences Research Articles |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Corpus Based Study of Citation Practices and Reporting Verbal Forms in Pakistani English Social Sciences Research Articles |
| title_short | A Corpus Based Study of Citation Practices and Reporting Verbal Forms in Pakistani English Social Sciences Research Articles |
| title_sort | corpus based study of citation practices and reporting verbal forms in pakistani english social sciences research articles |
| topic | cognition acts discourse acts evaluative functions integral citations reporting verbs research acts |
| url | https://journals.au.edu.pk/ojscrc/index.php/crc/article/view/256/156 |
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