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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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-eea0b44ebbdd462f8e8bbcb413dd3a482022-12-22T03:35:29ZengAsociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines EspecíficosIbérica1139-72412340-27842018-11-0136143170Corpus-based rhetorical analysis of the sub-genre of instruction manuals for household appliancesAraceli Cristobalena0Universidad de León, SpainMy 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 presentedhttp://www.aelfe.org/documents/36_06_IBERICA.pdfrhetorical move analysisinstruction manualsEnglish for Science and Technology (EST)instructional genre.instructional genre |
| spellingShingle | Araceli Cristobalena Corpus-based rhetorical analysis of the sub-genre of instruction manuals for household appliances Ibérica rhetorical move analysis instruction manuals English for Science and Technology (EST) instructional genre. instructional genre |
| title | Corpus-based rhetorical analysis of the sub-genre of instruction manuals for household appliances |
| title_full | Corpus-based rhetorical analysis of the sub-genre of instruction manuals for household appliances |
| title_fullStr | Corpus-based rhetorical analysis of the sub-genre of instruction manuals for household appliances |
| title_full_unstemmed | Corpus-based rhetorical analysis of the sub-genre of instruction manuals for household appliances |
| title_short | Corpus-based rhetorical analysis of the sub-genre of instruction manuals for household appliances |
| title_sort | corpus based rhetorical analysis of the sub genre of instruction manuals for household appliances |
| topic | rhetorical move analysis instruction manuals English for Science and Technology (EST) instructional genre. instructional genre |
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