English Research Article Titles by Korean Authors

박순분 현대영미어문학회 2005 현대영미어문학 Vol.23 No.4

This paper reports on an analysis of English research article titles written by Korean authors, using the classifications specified in Haggan (2004): full sentence, compound, NP PP (PP), NP (and NP), Participal P and PP. The study attempts to draw characteristic features of titles in English education by Korean authors, comparing with English native authors'. Results show that Korean authors prefer to take the construction of NP PP (PP) unlike English native authors. The Korean authors for this analysis used the compound titles less often. The awareness of our own processes of title formation will contribute to capturing ideas about what could be typical titles for our own field.

The Interpersonal Passive in English Research Article Abstracts: It Is Argued That...

박순분 대한영어영문학회 2007 영어영문학연구 Vol.33 No.3

Park, Soon-boon. “The Interpersonal Passive in English Research Article Abstracts: It Is Argued That....” Studies on English Language and Literature. 33.3(2007): 175-190. English research article abstracts are supposed to be written briefly and do not allow redundancies. In this limited writing, choices of marked sentences should be carefully made. Nevertheless, marked sentences such as it is argued that are not rare in academic writing. Choice of dummy it in the sentence theme does not contribute to building sentences which relate to one another and to the topic and subtopic in hand. Motivations for choice of the target construction need to be identified. This study investigates the use of anticipatory it-passives in research article abstracts in order to get an insight into the constructions. The data comprise 120 abstracts in the field of applied linguistics by NS and NNS (Korean authors). Results show that for native speakers, the choice of the anticipatory it-passive indicates that the writer really wants to be front in addressing research findings and interpretations which mean a lot to her or his own work, but intentionally remains in the background. A comparison between NS and NNS use in the target pattern shows that there could be a possibility that beginning or inattentive writers might not have awareness of its appropriate use. (University of Ulsan)

Research or Researches: The Noun’s Countability Preference in English Research Article Introductions

박순분 대한영어영문학회 2008 영어영문학연구 Vol.34 No.3

This paper attempts to explicate the countability preference of the noun research in English research article introductions. The study examines the noun’s distribution in the research article introduction and combination with complementary prepositions to see what characteristics are involved in the preference of the singular form. The study concludes that the preference of research in the singular over researches in the plural can be explained by abstractness and/or non-boundedness. Research can be understood as more conceptually abstract or unbounded compared to study, one of other research denoting words. Language users’ conceptions towards the word research affect its countability preference, even though it is grammatically acceptable in the singular or plural.

Exploring Introduction Moves in English Research Article Abstracts

박순분 한국응용언어학회 2012 응용 언어학 Vol.28 No.3

This study explores the ways in which writers construct Introduction moves in English research article (RA) abstracts, which are reported to be important in soft disciplines but frequently absent in abstracts by writers from non-English backgrounds. Using data drawn from representative journal papers in applied linguistics, the study examines rhetorical components constituting the Introduction moves. The qualitative analysis of Introduction moves based on 60 RA abstracts draws on a description of moves in the RA introduction section (Swales, 2004), assuming that the abstract is a summary of the accompanying article. It was observed that the Introduction move in the genre of English RA abstract can contain a single step of ‘topic generalizations of increasing specificity’ only. Moreover, the topic generalizations step is seen to involve phenomena more frequently than knowledge either in the non-research or research world. This preference of phenomena over knowledge is also the case with what leads to a research gap for the writer to fill. The findings may contribute to writers’ articulating their ideas in a state of employment of the Introduction move in the English RA abstract.

Rhetorical Strategies in Enlish Research Article Introductions Written by NS and NNS

박순분 현대문법학회 2004 현대문법연구 Vol.38 No.-

This paper reports on an analysis of English research article introductions written by English native speaking authors and Korean authors, using Swales' (1990) Create A Research Space (CARS) model. Data analysis leads to a modified version of the CARS model. The results of the analysis based on the revised one reveal that the NS and the NNS authors employ slightly but certainly different rhetorical strategies in writing research article introductions, which has pedagogical implications. Compared to the NS authors, the Korean authors are seen to employ the strategies of "claiming centrality" and "continuing tradition" slightly more often. The Korean authors justify their research by stating "a problem in the real world" more often and summarize principal findings less often.

Thematic Progression: A Reference and Sense-based Approach

박순분 한국현대영어영문학회 2008 현대영어영문학 Vol.52 No.1

according to Lores (2004) and Johnson (1995), is a concise representation or summary of a document's contents to enable the reader to determine its relevance to specific information. The abstract draws attention to the most important information contained within the document. Indeed, researchers use abstracts to filter the existing literature when conducting research into a certain topic or when trying to keep up-to-date with the latest advances in their field of interest. On the basis of the abstract, they can decide whether an entire document is worth reading or not.On the writer's side, abstracts are not simple to write, for they should be written briefly and comprehensively and do not allow redundancies. Lexical density in abstracts, as Halliday and Martin (1993) points out, has to be very high, which makes it difficult to both read and write such texts. Difficulties in effective reading and writing raise the necessity of a cohesive structure, which can be enhanced by Thematic Progression or the cohesive link set up by Themes. This paper identifies Themes and Thematic Progressions in research article abstracts, and examines how it is possible to build on cohesiveness in such a text whose lexical density is high.

Explicating the Link between Prior Studies and Present Research in RA Introductions

박순분 현대영미어문학회 2016 현대영미어문학 Vol.34 No.4

This study investigates the ways writers link prior studies to present research in the introduction section. Using research article introductions written by international writers and Korean writers, the study tries to explicate how international and Korean writers associate their citations with their research purposes. Drawing on Swales’s (1990, 2004) move description of research article introductions, the study investigated sequential patterns of citation leading to the move-step of outlining purposes or announcing present research. The aims were to develop the description of patterns of prior studies associated with present research announcement and to explore possible differences in the writing of international and Korean writers

The English Past Tense as a Politeness Strategy: Korean Students’ Awareness of the Modal Function

박순분 한국현대영어영문학회 2006 현대영어영문학 Vol.50 No.3

This study investigates Korean students’ awareness of the English past tense as a politeness strategy. The results show that most of the Korean students do not fully understand the modal function of the past tense as a politeness strategy. It was found that they are specifically poor at dealing with main verbs in a polite way. The findings of this study demonstrate the importance of explicit teaching of socio-pragmatic elements. Furthermore, instructors’ explicit awareness regarding the needs of pragmatic teaching is recommended.

The Discourse Function of Phraseological Patterns in English Research Article

박순분(Soon-Boon Park) 영미어문학회 2005 영미어문학연구 Vol.21 No.2

The present study investigates phraseological patterns of the noun study across different rhetorical moves in research article introductions. The study also explores the Korean authors' usage different from the English native authors'. The results indicate that trere are some relationships between phraseological patterns and their rhetorical moves. The different usage of the Koreans from tre English native authors enables us to interpret phraseology as part of the defining characteristic of disrourse community.

Changing Tense Conventions in English Research Article Abstracts

Soon-Boon Park(박순분) 한국외국어교육학회 2007 Foreign languages education Vol.14 No.2

Factors other than a time-sense relationship govern tense selection. Thus, it is misleading to teach verb tense choice based on time lines only. We need to point out the communicative purposes of verb tenses in discourse frames. Motivated by a concern for the pedagogical significance of studying tense choice in relation to rhetorical functions, this paper investigates tense choice in English research article abstracts written by English native speaking authors and Korean authors, using Hyland’s (2004) model. Few differences were found between the NS and the NNS. However, we can see that tense use conventions are changing, especially in the Product move, which corresponds to the Results move in general terms. Quite a few authors employed the present tense in the Product move which has conventionally preferred the use of the past tense. The results show that a question of tense choice in the Product move can not be clear-cut because choosing the present tense does not exclude the possibility of the past and vice versa. Nevertheless, the discussion in this study gives us the confidence to make judgements of modality we intend in appropriate ways.