Abstracts - Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa

NASRIN SAYFOURI, TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES, IRANTEXT ANALYSIS: HIGHLIGHTING AND UNPACKING IDEATIONAL GRAMMATICALMETAPHORS IN MEDICAL RESEARCH ARTICLESThe importance of genre knowledge in TESOL to master academic, professional, oreducational discourse has been widely acknowledged recently. One suchknowledge is the recognition of the linguistic aspects of English scientific discoursewhich can account for the complexity of this type of discourse. Scholars of SystemicFunctional Linguistics (SFL) (e.g. Eggins, 2004; Halliday, 1998; Halliday & Martin,1992; Halliday & Mattiessen, 2004; Martin & Rose, 2007) have regardedgrammatical metaphor (GM) as the chief feature of scientific texts and the mainsource of difficulty of writing the related text types.The discourse of English research articles (Ras), as one prominent type of Englishscientific discourse, has been probed in English for Specific (ESP) studies from themacro-structural perspective investigating the types of information units (Moves)used. For instance, medical RAs - being the focus of attention in this workshop -have been analyzed by ESP scholars extensively (e.g., Skelton, 1994; Nwogu, 1997;and Li & Ge, 2009).In order to scrutinize the micro-structures of discourse of medical RAs, these typesof texts can also be analyzed in terms of the features of English scientific discourse,especially the GM types, proposed by Halliday (2002, 2004). Although differenttypes of GM have been described, explained, and exemplified extensively, thislinguistic phenomenon is so abstract and simultaneously ubiquitous that it can beviewed variously from different angles and perspectives.In this workshop, firstly, the role of GMs (especially the nominalization types) willbe exemplified and practiced in spectrums extending from more spoken to morewritten modes of English discourse. It will, then, be shown that other features ofEnglish scientific discourse are mainly by-products of GM employment. Highlightingand unpacking ideational GM types (experiential and logical) in the discussionsection of medical research articles will finally be discussed and put into practice.This tutorial workshop will be beneficial for ESP teachers, students of medicine,non-native writers of English medical research articles, MA and PhD students of appliedlinguistics and similar disciplines, and all those who are interested in text analysisusing Systemic Functional Linguistic.WORKSHOP 4 - ROOM 9 - THURSDAY, 28 JULYISFC38 Book of Abstracts Page 243 Lisbon, July 2011