The pragmatics of text facilitation : the study of academic English of native and non-native writers Golebiowski, Z. 2005, The pragmatics of text facilitation : the study of academic English of native and non-native writers, in IPrA 2005 : 9th International Pragmatics Conference : Abstracts, International Pragmatics Association, Antwerp, Belgium, pp. 143-143. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title The pragmatics of text facilitation : the study of academic English of native and non-native writers Author(s) Golebiowski, Z. Conference name International Pragmatics Conference (9th : 2005 : Riva Del Garda, Italy) Conference location Riva Del Garda, Italy Conference dates 10-15 Jul. 2005 Title of proceedings IPrA 2005 : 9th International Pragmatics Conference : Abstracts Publication date 2005 Start page 143 End page 143 Publisher International Pragmatics Association Place of publication Antwerp, Belgium Summary In this paper I describe the discursive strategies related to the writer–reader textual reciprocity. I focus on one way of achieving such reciprocity -- the employment by the writer of facilitative schematic structures and metalanguage where one text segment signposts information conveyed in the segment that follows. I refer to these facilitative schematic structures as "organising relational schemata". I see organising relations as the most explicit components of the rhetorical structure of texts: they illuminate the main message and aid the reader's cognitive processes in the orientation of how information is conveyed by text. This paper discusses the way the choices of organising relations and associated metalanguage by the writers in different cultures and different discourse communities contribute to the communicative homeostasis in the world of text. It shows how the influence of a native culture and intellectual style together with the forces operating within the writer's international disciplinary community interact in the authorial guidance in the scholarly prose. I introduce and exemplify three types of organising relational structures: Advance Organisers, Introducers and Enumerators. I trace the utilisation of these three types of relations in sociology research papers written in English and produced in "Anglo" and Polish academic discourse comunities by native English speaking and native Polish speaking scholars. The relational typology adopted is based on a study by Golebiowski (2002), which proposed a theoretical framework for the examination of discoursal structure of research papers, referred to as FARS – Framework for the Analysis of the Rhetorical Structure of Texts. FARS entails a relational taxonomy which displays a pattern of rhetorical relations utilised by the writer to achieve textual coherence. I describe intertextual differences in the frequency of occurrence of organising relations, their degree of explicitness and their positioning in the hierarchical structure of texts. Differences in the mode of employment of textual organisers suggest that the rhetorical structure of English research prose produced by non-native speakers cannot escape being shaped by the characteristics and conventions of the authors’ first language. They are also attributed to cultural norms and conventions as well as educational systems prevailing within the discourse communities which constitute the social contexts of texts. Language eng Field of Research 200399 Language Studies not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 950201 Communication Across Languages and Culture HERDC Research category E3 Extract of paper Copyright notice ©2005, International Pragmatics Association Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30014515 Document type: Conference Paper Collection: School of Social and Cultural Studies in Education Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 21 Oct 2008, 14:23:43 EST Wed, 13 Oct 2010, 10:39:51 EST Wed, 13 Oct 2010, 10:40:35 EST Thu, 14 Jun 2012, 10:21:17 EST Thu, 14 Jun 2012, 10:22:10 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 356 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Tue, 21 Oct 2008, 14:23:43 EST

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