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1.Academicdiscourseanditsrhetoric
eratureconcernedwiththistexttype,Melanderetal.(1997),whoexamine
EnglishandSwedishabstractsofresearcharticlesdrawnfrommedicine,bi-
ologyandlinguisticsintermsoftheirstructureandlinguisticandrhetorical
features,andHyland(2000),whodevotesonechapterinhisvolumetothe
discussionofrhetoricalorganisationpatternsandmechanismsofpersuasion
acrossvariousdisciplines.Huckin(2001)carriesoutananalysisofbiomedi-
calabstractstoseehowaccuratelytheyrepresentthecontentofcorrespond-
ingarticlesandcommentsontheirtypicalmovestructure.Martin-Martin
(2003)andMartin-MartinandBurgess(2004)investigaterhetoricalvariation
betweenEnglishandSpanishresearcharticleabstractsfromthefieldsofpsy-
chologyandphonetics,withsomeparticularlyinterestingfindingsconcerning
theResultssectionandthehandlingofacademiccriticism,Stotesbury(2003,
2006)exploresevaluativelanguageinabstractsdrawnfromawiderangeof
disciplines,whileLorés(2004)examineslinguisticsresearcharticleabstracts
todiscovertwotypesofrhetoricalstructuretheytendtofollowandstudiesthe
relationshipbetweenthestructuraltypeandthethematicorganisationofthe
text.VanBonnandSwales(2007)focusonEnglishandFrenchresearcharti-
cleabstractspublishedinmonolingualandbilinguallinguisticsjournalsand
reportmarkeddifferenceswithregardtojustifyingtheresearchontheone
handandannouncingitspurposeontheother.Linguisticsignalsofauthorial
presenceareinvestigatedinPho(2008)andCavaandVenuti(2008),whodis-
cussthepatternsofwriterlreaderinteractioninresearcharticleabstractses-
peciallyasregardsthetermsrelatedtotheauthor)sidentityandtheitemswith
whichtheyco-occur.Therolestheauthorofanarticleabstractassumesand
thewaysinwhichtheyarerealisedinthetextarefurtherexaminedinDahl
(2009)inbothcross-linguisticandcross-disciplinaryperspective.Interesting
insightsintothelinguisticorganisationofmedicalresearcharticleabstracts
alsocomefromBielskiandBielska)s(2008)analysisofPolish-Englishabstract
translations.Morerecently,variousperspectivesonabstractsasanacademic
genrehavebeenbroughttogetherbyLorésSanzandBondi(2014),acollec-
tionofstudieswhichlookintotherhetoric,specificlexicalpatternsandhis-
toricaldevelopmentoftheabstractacrossdisciplinesandcultures.
Researchintotherhetoricalorganisationoftheacademicbookreview,
agenrewhichprovidesasummaryandevaluationofanotheracademictext,
hasbeenundertakenbyHyland(2000),whostudiesthestrategiesofpraiseand
criticismusedbyauthorsinordertoachieveabalancebetweenopenevalua-
tionofanotherwriter)stextontheonehandandtactfulnessandmodestyex-
pectedininteractionwithothersontheother.Suárez-Tejerina(2005)offers
acontrastiveanalysisofEnglishandSpanishbookreviews,lookingintoeval-
