A Systemic Functional Semiotic Study of the Logogenesis of Journal Article Abstracts in Linguistics

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2015.01.003

Abstract

Abstract: Journal article abstracts, which serve to summarize and promote journal articles, are of great interest in academic circles. Most of the existing studies of abstracts have as their purpose the promotion of abstract writing in terms of summarizing their discursive structure, linguistic patterns and differences across language and disciplines. To date, there has not been a logogenetic study of abstracts in detailed discourse analysis. Informed by systemic functional semiotic theory, this paper reveals the potential of the logogenetic approach through genre analysis of journal article abstracts in the field of linguistics. The article concludes that the majority of abstracts are instances of macro genre and that the study of the logogenesis of abstracts promotes abstract writing and clarifies the relation between register and genre in the framework of systemic functional linguistics.

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H0-06

ZHANG Xiangang. A Systemic Functional Semiotic Study of the Logogenesis of Journal Article Abstracts in Linguistics[J]. Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies, 2015, 15(01): 14-19.

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