Abstract Although flourishing research has been devoted to research on article abstracts, more studies are needed to unpack the relationship between rhetorical moves and their associated linguistic and rhetorical features (e.g., metadiscourse). To underpin this relationship, the current study analyzed a total of 60 research article abstracts written in English by two cultural groups in three di...

In this paper a two level dialogue representation system is presented° It is intended to recognize the structure of a large range of dialogues including some nonverbal communicative acts which may be involved in an interaction. It provides a syntactic description of a dialogue which can be expressed in terms of re-writing rules. The semantic level of the proposed representation system is given ...

This paper explores the utility of Habermas’s A Theory of Communicative Action (volumes 1 and 2) and his Between Facts and Norms. Habermas’s work has influenced middle-range accounting as advanced by some critical accounting researchers writing about critical and public sector accountability models. This paper considers accounting’s role in the public sphere and examines the Habermasian strain ...

abstract although flourishing research has been devoted to research on article abstracts, more studies are needed to unpack the relationship between rhetorical moves and their associated linguistic and rhetorical features (e.g., metadiscourse). to underpin this relationship, the current study analyzed a total of 60 research article abstracts written in english by two cultural groups in three di...

The history of writing is interesting not just because it marks the evolution of means for preserving or communicating information but also because writing can be taken as representing aspects of language including such structural features as sentences, words, syllables and phonemes. Just how graphic symbols came to represent underlying linguistic constituents is the concern of this paper.] As ...