Deconstructing Applied Linguistics Conference Paper Titles: A Syntactic Analysis

Autor/inn/en	Afful, Joseph B. A.; Ankomah, Christopher
Titel	Deconstructing Applied Linguistics Conference Paper Titles: A Syntactic Analysis
Quelle	In: Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 16 (2020) 3, S.1219-1236 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Afful, Joseph B. A.) ORCID (Ankomah, Christopher)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1305-578X
Schlagwörter	Conference Papers; Syntax; Applied Linguistics; Research Reports; Writing (Composition); Academic Language; Content Analysis; Authors; Punctuation; Researchers; Preferences; Phrase Structure; Form Classes (Languages); Writing Instruction; Nouns + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Konferenzmaterial; Linguistics; Linguistik; Angewandte Linguistik; Research report; Forschungsbericht; Schreibübung; Academic; Language; Languages; Akademiker; Sprache; Wissenschaftssprache; Inhaltsanalyse; Author; Autor; Autorin; Interpunktion; Researcher; Forscher; Phrasenstruktur; Analytischer Sprachbau; Schreibunterricht
Abstract	Following Swales' (1990) influential study on research article (RA) introductions, some attention has increasingly been paid to other rhetorical units of both expert and learners' writing, including titles. A key and effective discursive means through which titles are constructed and presented is the syntactic configuration. The present study, thus, investigates the syntactic structures employed by authors of conference paper titles (CPTs) in Applied Linguistics. A qualitative content analysis was employed to study a corpus of 592 CPTs from a popular conference for researchers, scholars, and practitioners of Applied Linguistics worldwide, supported by some descriptive statistics. The analysis of the data of the study identified three main title styles: Single Unit Title, Compound Unit Title, and Complex Unit Title. The analysis showed that, out of these three title styles, Compound Unit Titles were preferred by researchers. Further, the colon was the dominantly used punctuation mark in separating the components of Compound Unit titles. The final point was that authors preferred prepositional phrases in the post modification of the noun phrase structure of CPTs. The findings of this study have implications for the scholarship on titlelogy, academic writing pedagogy as well as further research. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies. Hacettepe Universitesi, Egitim Fakultesi B Blok, Yabanci Diller Egitimi Bolumu, Ingiliz Dili Egitimi Anabilim Dali, Ankara 06800, Turkey. e-mail: jllsturkey@gmail.com; Web site: http://www.jlls.org
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Update	2024/1/01