Research discourse: genre universals and disciplinary specifics of research papers

Abstract

This article is devoted to the study of academic research discourse. The authors claim that research discourse is a specific type of an academic one. The purpose of this study is to identify and analyze genre universal features and disciplinary variation of English research article. The research material is English-language research papers from medical and linguistic scientific journals. The results demonstrate that research paper is the core of research discourse; the macrostructure of a research article is a universal characteristic of an English-language research discourse; a number of specific characteristics of research discourse have been identified.