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Internal structures of abstracts and introductions in selected academic papers concerning literary and cultural subjects
Internal structures of abstracts and introductions in selected academic papers concerning literary and cultural subjects

Author(s): Jana Ščigulinská
Subject(s): Pragmatics
Published by: Lingvokulturologické a prekladateľsko-tlmočnícke centrum excelentnosti pri Filozofickej fakulte Prešovskej university v Prešove (LPTCE)
Keywords: academic writing

Summary/Abstract: The present paper is focused on the analysis of the possible differences related to the writing structures and strategies used in the abstracts and introductions of the academic journal World Literature Studies in the selected issue from 2018 and its papers published in English. The aim of the study was to determine whether the abstracts and introductions of the papers related to area of art and humanities followed and shared the features related to their structure which are accepted and preferred by the academic journals of higher ranks. The results of the analysis refer to growing tendency to employ such types of structures even in the research areas related to literature, culture or arts. On the other hand, the analysis revealed that in the indexed journal, World Literature Studies, the structure of the abstracts is not always unified, as some structures are omitted. Regarding that, the missing information is present and sometimes developed in the introductions. This is an important result of the research presented in this paper, as it illustrates the importance of the mutual relationship between academic abstracts and introductions when presenting the academic research.

  • Issue Year: 11/2020
  • Issue No: 41-42
  • Page Range: 124-133
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English