A PHRASEOLOGICAL APPROACH TO SPANISH SCHOLARS’ RHETORICAL STRATEGIES IN ENGLISH-MEDIUM RESEARCH PUBLICATION

Abstract

This study particularly analyzes phraseological patterns of first person plural references as the expression of authorship in writing. Corpus evidence is obtained for two communities contrasted, that is English native scholars and their Spanish counterparts. Data on common authorship-related phraseological patterns retrieved with WSConcgram (Scott, 2008) from a section coded-corpus of research articles indicate that these phraseologies are section-specific, but that there are also differences in their configuration across cultures (i.e. Spanish and Anglo-American). Finally, these findings are discussed in view of the potential implications on Spanish scholars’ rhetorical strategies who need to adjust their language to the rhetorical standards of English-medium journals (Pérez- Llantada, 2012) when engaging in global debates.

Keywords

• English-medium publication
• authorship
• biomedical research article
• contrastive rhetoric
• Spanish context