Abstract—Due to the development of economy and
technology, more and more Chinese scholars submit their work
to international journals. However, most Chinese scholars write
English abstracts based on Chinese journals’ requirements,
which affects their works’ publication. Therefore, a
comparative study on the abstract of Chinese and English
native writers of aeronautics is necessary. While abstract genre
analysis, especially English research in science and technology,
has become a popular research trend in recent years, genre
analyses of aeronautic paper abstract are scarce. Therefore, this
research is a comparative study of English aeronautic abstracts
written by Chinese and English-speaking scholars from the
generic structure perspective, focusing on their genre features.
This quantitative and qualitative study is based on two corpora
of 60 abstracts each, respectively extracted from AAIAJ,
Acta-Astronautica, AAAS, and Journal of Astronautics. In each
corpus, the abstracts’ generic structures are marked manually
based on Swales’s IMRD model and Antmover. The result
shows that Chinese writers’ abstract structures are more
complete than western authors, and western authors tend to
omit the method and discussion moves. Besides, western
authors are more tend to use some irregular orders than
Chinese authors. This paper puts forward a new perspective for
the genre analysis and hope to give some implication for the
abstract writing.
Index Terms—Genre analysis, IMRD model, Aeronautic
abstract, generic structure
The authors are with the School of Foreign Studies, Northwestern Polytec
hnical University, 1 Dongxiang Road, Chang'an District, Xi'an Shaanxi,710
129, P. R. China (e-mail: mirandazhu@mail.nwpu.edu.cn, xazhao@mail.nw
pu.edu.cn).
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Cite:Zhu Siwei and Zhao Xueai, "A Comparative Study on Genre Features of English Abstracts in Chinese and Western Aviation Academic Journals," International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 58-64, 2022.