Corpus-based rhetorical analysis of the sub-genre of instruction manuals for household appliances
My aim in this paper is to describe the rhetorical structure of the sub-genre of Instruction Manuals for household appliances in British English (BE) and Peninsular Spanish (PS). This study is based on the concept of genre, and it consists of a move analysis of an ad hoc specialised corpus. The anal...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos
2018-11-01
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| Series: | Ibérica |
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| Online Access: | http://www.aelfe.org/documents/36_06_IBERICA.pdf |
| Summary: | My aim in this paper is to describe the rhetorical structure of the sub-genre of Instruction Manuals for household appliances in British English (BE) and Peninsular Spanish (PS). This study is based on the concept of genre, and it consists of a move analysis of an ad hoc specialised corpus. The analysis has two discrete parts: a qualitative analysis to establish the structure of this sub-genre; and a quantitative one, to identify the presence of each feature in order to determine the prototypical structure of this sub-genre. Finally, some possible implications of these findings are presented |
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| ISSN: | 1139-7241 2340-2784 |