Aug 2026· Technium Social Sciences Journal· Vol 86, pp. 262-278· 0 citations
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Abstract. Driven by institutional pressures on second-language scholars to publish in internationally indexed journals, this systematic review evaluates two decades (2006–2026) of empirical literature on research article introductions in the English-Vietnamese context to address the persistent divide between macro-structural and micro-linguistic analytical traditions. Guided by an adapted PRISMA 2020 protocol, 45 empirical studies retrieved from Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar were systematically selected and synthesized through qualitative thematic coding and descriptive content analysis. The synthesis demonstrates that existing literature has largely evolved along two parallel trajectories comprising macro-level move analyses (22 studies) and micro-level cohesion investigations (17 studies) with only six studies examining their interaction. While genre based research shows that Vietnamese authors frequently favor indirect niche establishment strategies in Move 2, cohesion focused studies report distinct tendencies in conjunction deployment and thematic progression, thereby uncovering three major gaps including the methodological separation between structural and textual analysis, the lack of move specific functional accounts of cohesive ties, and the limited integration of linguistic typology with discourse practices. To bridge these gaps, this review proposes an integrated conceptual framework that treats communicative functions as the functional context for lexicogrammatical choices, offering a unified model for future contrastive research and establishing pedagogical directions for academic writing instruction.
This study investigates argumentative patterns in research article introductions (RAIs) by integrating genre
analysis with argumentation theories. Although Swales’ Create-a-Research-Space (CaRS) model has received sustained attention in
genre-analytic research, particularly for its pedagogical value, its inherently argumentative dimension remains underexplored.
Addressing this gap, the study reconceptualizes CaRS rhetorical moves as argumentative activity types and examines how
argumentative patterns are mobilized in published peer-reviewed RAIs. Drawing on Pragma-Dialectics and the Argumentum Model of
Topics (AMT), forty RAIs from Scopus-indexed journals in applied linguistics were analyzed using a three-tier framework: (1)
identifying issues and standpoints in relation to communicative goals, (2) reconstructing argumentation structures, and (3)
identifying underlying loci. The findings demonstrate how rhetorical organization and reasoning jointly establish research
legitimacy, position studies within existing literature, and substantiate their scholarly contribution. The study also proposes an
integrative framework bridging macro-level genre analysis and micro-level argumentation analysis, offering empirically grounded
guidance for academic writers.
Narjes Sheikh Asadi, Andrea Rocci· Journal of Argumentation in...· 0 citations
This research addresses the escalating scholar-practitioner divide by investigating the conceptual divergence between academic leadership theory and dominant leadership discourse consumed and operationalized by practitioners. It seeks to synthesize fragmented perspectives into a coherent framework, identifying emergent imperatives and theoretical empty spaces necessitated by global organizational volatility.
The study employs a bifurcated methodological design. First, an inductive thematic analysis was carried out on executive-led discourse from select high-salience platforms. Second, a systematic morphological analysis mapped the current academic landscape. The findings of these studies were integrated via a cross-consistency assessment to bring together these disparate epistemological domains.
The study utilized an inductive thematic analysis that crystallized six core themes, outlining the current ontological shift in leadership discourse. Through the General Morphological Analysis (GMA) the mapping of a multi-dimensional configuration space, identifying 165 structural research gaps in academic inquiry. These distinct epistemological domains were integrated, culminating in a 2x2 analytical quadrant that effectively triangulates conversational salience with theoretical density which provides a predictive roadmap for high-impact, ecologically valid inquiry by demarcating research voids and scholarly foundations.
The study is limited by the temporal snapshot of digital discourse and the inherent subjectivity of morphological parameterization.
This study seeks to bridge the scholar-practitioner divide through bringing together topics of both temporal and research interest toward actionable strategic imperatives. These imperatives facilitate the immediate operationalization of constructs such as ontological self-development, social architecture and the human-technology counterbalance to transition from traditional command structures toward decentralized, adaptive leadership paradigms essential for contemporary high-volatility environments.
The study highlights a vital shift toward follower-centricity, ensuring that leadership transcends traditional power hierarchies to prioritize the well-being of the collective. These insights foster more resilient social structures capable of navigating the profound uncertainties of contemporary global disruption.
Unlike previous literature which treats the scholar-practitioner divide as a monolithic challenge, this study, via thematic analysis and General Morphological Analysis provides a granular, empirical mapping of the current leadership topography. By delineating three distinct archetypal zones and synthesizing them into an analytical matrix to offer a predictive roadmap ensuring that future scholarly inquiry is both theoretically rigorous and ecologically valid.
R. Sai Naveen, Uppalury Suma, P. Sai Brindha· Strategy & Leadership· 0 citations
Drawing on genre analysis and corpus-based translation studies, this study examines rhetorical hype in Chinese government White Papers published between 2020 and 2023 and their official English translations. Rhetorical hype is defined as evaluative and promotional language that heightens the perceived importance, novelty, effectiveness, scope, or desirability of policies, actions, knowledge claims, and accomplishments, with its individual lexical realizations termed hyperbolic items.
Using a sentence-level move scheme adapted from previous genre studies, the study identifies seven move types and focuses on the three most extensive moves: Detailing Actions, Presenting Epistemic Knowledge, and Presenting Accomplishments. Hyperbolic items were identified using a candidate lexicon compiled from previous studies and lexical resources, followed by contextual validation and examination of aligned source–target units. Descriptive frequency analysis was combined with qualitative analysis of translation patterns across the three moves.
The English translations contain fewer hyperbolic items overall than the Chinese source texts. Presenting Accomplishments exhibits the highest normalized frequency of hyperbolic items in both corpora, whereas the relative distribution of such items in Detailing Actions and Presenting Epistemic Knowledge differs between the source and target texts. Qualitative analysis reveals three major translation patterns—attenuation, retention, and amplification—with attenuation predominating in the sampled data.
The findings indicate that the English translations display a more restrained evaluative profile than the Chinese source texts, a pattern compatible with target-oriented institutional mediation. By integrating rhetorical move analysis with the analysis of evaluative language, this study offers a more context-sensitive account of rhetorical hype in political discourse translation and demonstrates the value of combining genre-based and corpus-based approaches to institutional translation.
Luo-Jia Wang· Frontiers in Communication· 0 citations
Academic writing instruction has traditionally relied on structural conventions such as the Introduction–Methods–Results–and–Discussion (IMRaD) format, genre-based move analysis, and discipline-specific style guides. While these frameworks address discrete aspects of scholarly composition, they rarely offer writers, particularly novice, doctoral, and multilingual researchers, an integrated, sequential model that links contextual framing to disciplinary voice. This conceptual article undertakes an integrative review of the academic writing, genre analysis, and scholarly identity literatures to propose a six-dimensional meta-framework: Context, Scope, Method, Evidence, Structure, and Voice (CSMESV), that positions manuscript development as a cumulative, recursive process rather than a template to be filled in. Each dimension is theorized through synthesis of the extant literature and mapped onto specific decision points that authors, supervisors, and journal reviewers encounter across the writing lifecycle. The article situates the framework in relation to existing structural models, including IMRaD and the symmetry-of-specificity model, as well as genre-based move analysis and discoursal-identity scholarship. It further considers the emerging role of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools as scaffolds for applying the model, rather than as substitutes for scholarly judgment, and illustrates the framework's application through worked examples drawn from business, management, and social science manuscript types. The article contributes a parsimonious, transferable heuristic for academic writing pedagogy, doctoral supervision, and manuscript preparation across disciplines, and outlines an agenda for empirically validating the model in future research.
Z. Baharom· International journal of res...· 0 citations
This study integrates bibliometric visualization with content coding to clarify the development, knowledge structure, and research gaps of digital discourse studies, offering directions for future interdisciplinary inquiry.
Yifan Liu, Omar Ali Al-Smadi, Siti Soraya Lin Abdullah Kamal et al.· Journal of Nusantara Studies...· 0 citations
Subtitling is a crucial mode of audiovisual translation (AVT) that serves as a purposeful activity facilitating intercultural interaction and communication. Existing studies on historical subtitling often suffer from two major shortcomings: (a) treating translation choices in isolation without systematically integrating pragmatic force with audiovisual strategy taxonomies, or (b) conflating descriptive analysis with subjective quality evaluations. The current study aims to investigate the pragmatic shifts that occur in the English subtitles of the historical TV series Omar Ibn Al-Khattab (specifically focusing on Episode 8) and to explore the translation strategies employed to compensate for these shifts. Addressing methodological gaps in previous research, this paper establishes an integrated theoretical framework operationalizing Grice’s (1975) Conversational Implicature, Speech Act Theory (Austin, 1962; Searle, 1969), and Pedersen’s (2011) Extralinguistic Cultural Reference (ECR) model adopting a descriptive, non-evaluative qualitative case study design. The findings categorize pragmatic shifts across six distinct dimensions: paralinguistic cues, contextual variations of cultural/religious terms, stylistic elevation through vocative particles and honorifics, oath and interjection adaptation, shifts in illocutionary force and pragmatic adaptation of somatic idioms (functional equivalence). To compensate for these shifts, subtitling translators utilized distinct strategies such as paralinguistic compensation, specification, substitution, direct translation (calque), retention, syntactic re-encoding (functional substitution) and generalization. The study explicitly articulates its novel theoretical integration and acknowledges its empirical limitation to Episode 8, offering a nuanced descriptive account of interlingual subtitling without claiming direct audience reception effects.
I. Albondoq· Stardom Scientific Journal o...· 0 citations