Research Article Abstracts in Applied Linguistics and Economics: Functional Analysis of the Grammatical Subject

• Published in: Australian journal of linguistics Vol. 35; no. 4; pp. 381 - 397
• Main Authors: Ebrahimi, Seyed Foad, Chan, Swee Heng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon Routledge 02.10.2015; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Abstracts; Academic writing; Applied linguistics; Corpus analysis; Disciplinary Difference; Discourse analysis; Discourse Function; Discourse functions; Grammatical Subject; Linguistics; Research Article Abstract; Text Development; Theme

The aims of this paper are to analyse and compare the discourse functions of grammatical subjects used in research article abstracts in the disciplines of Applied Linguistics and Economics. The data for this study consisted of 60 research article abstracts published in 2010 and 2011 in the journals...