29.1308, Diss: Applied Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Tomoko Sawaki: ''Construing Stance in History Theses: Dynamic Interactions among Ideology, Generic Structure and Engagement''

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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 11:23:43
From: Tomoko Sawaki [tomokosawakigillard at gmail.com]
Subject: Construing Stance in History Theses: Dynamic Interactions among Ideology, Generic Structure and Engagement

 
Institution: The University of New South Wales 
Program: PhD English/Linguistics 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2014 

Author: Tomoko Sawaki

Dissertation Title: Construing Stance in History Theses: Dynamic Interactions
among Ideology, Generic Structure and Engagement 

Dissertation URL:  http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/53755

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics


Dissertation Director(s):

Dissertation Abstract:

This thesis examines introductory chapters of recent history theses, in order
to identify generic structure, engagement strategies, and to explore the
extent of the role engagement strategies play in relation to the construction
of text. In order to resolve analytical issues in the Swalean method, a new
method is proposed, which integrates the Greimassian method, a semiotically
oriented structuralist method of reducing elements to the minimum function. By
doing so, this thesis demonstrates that emerging elements such as postmodern
personal anecdotes can be effectively incorporated into this minimized generic
structure model, providing a practical methodology for future generic
structure analyses. Quantitative and qualitative investigations are pursued in
order to compare the generic structures of thesis introductory chapters of
different ideological orientations. The results are statistically tested with
correspondence analysis so as to visually identify the correlation between
generic structure components and ideological orientation. The analysis of
engagement strategies is also conducted quantitatively and qualitatively to
compare the distribution of different dialogic elements according to
ideological orientation. The engagement analysis further investigates the
distribution of dialogic elements across generic structure components, which
investigates if and how engagement strategies realise larger textual
resources, namely, the interaction between engagement strategies and generic
structures. This thesis finds that traditional and postmodern theses vary
significantly in the way they create dialogic spaces and that engagement
strategies vary across generic structure components. This thesis concludes
that a minimized binary generic structure model is useful in analyzing
increasingly diversified thesis writing. It also concludes that dialogic
elements play a crucial role in constructing text, enabled by dynamic
interaction with ideology and textual resources. This thesis finds a large
extent of variation within a discipline and proposes that developing
negotiation strategies to successfully persuade members of different
ideological orientations within a discipline may be crucial in pedagogic
settings.




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