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dc.contributor.authorMwinlaaru, Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire-
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-17T09:29:38Z-
dc.date.available2021-11-17T09:29:38Z-
dc.date.issued2017-
dc.identifier.issn23105496-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/6498-
dc.description25p:, ill.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study explores the benefits of a synergy between ESP research on genre and theoretical dimensions of systemic functional linguistics (SFL). It models genre on SFL dimensions and employs this model to analyze 200 biodata written by Applied Linguistics scholars, 100 each from research articles and seminar posters. Data were analyzed from contextual, logico-semantic and lexicogrammatical perspectives. The findings reveal five generic stages in biodata. The frequency distribution of these stages and the phases that realize them shows variation between research article bios and seminar bios. The most frequent logico-semantic (or rhetorical) relations identified among stages and phases are the expansion type, namely; addition and elaboration, Further, collocational frameworks are used in organizing some generic phases into waves of meaning and in construing different identities. Finally, evaluative resources, in the form of lexical bundles, modification and circumstantial elements in the clause, are employed by writers to boost their professional achievements and promote themselves. These findings contribute to theoretical discussions on genre and the scholarship on the interface between identity construction and academic writing, and also motivate further researchen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Cape Coasten_US
dc.subjectAcademic writingen_US
dc.subjectBiodataen_US
dc.subjectCollocational frameworksen_US
dc.subjectGenreen_US
dc.subjectLexical bundlesen_US
dc.subjectRhetorical relationsen_US
dc.titleBridging Boundaries across Genre Traditions: A Systemic Functional Account of Generic Patterns in Biodataen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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