Linguistic expression above the sentence unit is commonly called discourse. Provided that a certain community uses a particular discourse method, it can represent a discourse community. A certain community's discourse has its unique communication meth...
Linguistic expression above the sentence unit is commonly called discourse. Provided that a certain community uses a particular discourse method, it can represent a discourse community. A certain community's discourse has its unique communication method agreed by community members. Such distinct discourse method also exists in a group of people involved in the same academic area. This paper analyzes sentence patterns of academic texts in Korean language and literature to clarify their grammatical characteristics, thereby exploring why those sentence patterns with such characteristics are chosen as specific discourse method for academic texts. Consequently, it reaches the conclusion that those sentence patterns embody various discourse functions grounded upon basic functions in academic texts and such discourse functions are connected with communicative strategies. Authors of academic texts have an ultimate goal to make readers, namely other researchers engaging in the same area, accept their argument to the maximum extent and arouse consensus from the discourse community, and they utilize communicative strategies for such goal.