A GENRE STUDY OF UNDERGRADUATE DISSERTATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IN A GHANAIAN UNIVERSITY

被引:7
作者
Afful, Joseph Benjamin Archibald [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Cape Coast, Dept English, Cape Coast, Ghana
来源
ESP TODAY-JOURNAL OF ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES AT TERTIARY LEVEL | 2016年 / 4卷 / 02期
关键词
dissertation acknowledgement; Ghana; undergraduate students; writing pedagogy;
D O I
10.18485/esptoday.2016.4.2.4
中图分类号
H0 [语言学];
学科分类号
030303 ; 0501 ; 050102 ;
摘要
In recent times, scholars and researchers in Applied Linguistics have increasingly shown interest in dissertation acknowledgements/thesis acknowledgements (DAs/TAs) in various settings (Anglo-American, Arabic, and Asian), leaving those from Sub-Saharan Africa under-researched. The present study seeks to examine the DAs of undergraduate students at a Ghanaian university, following Hyland (2003, 2004). A data set of 200 DAs was obtained from two departments, English and Entomology & Wild Life. The qualitative research design was used as the main approach, supplemented by some descriptive statistics, to analyze the schematic structure and lexico-grammatical choices in the data set. Two key findings were observed in the study. First, the analysis showed a three-move pattern across the two sets of data and a slight differentiation in terms of text length across the exemplars. Secondly, the DAs from both departments deployed gratitude-related terms and socio-culturally conditioned names, while hybridized forms (realized in sociolinguistic terms as code-mixing) were preferably used in the DAs from the Department of English. These findings have implications for research on DAs/TAs, genre studies, and undergraduate research writing pedagogy.
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页码:202 / 224
页数:23
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