Umar Fauzan, Arif Husein Lubis, Eri Kurniawan
This study examines rhetorical moves and their linguistic realizations including linguistic complexity in applied linguistics abstracts. Informed by a genre-approach move analysis, this study analyzed 112 abstracts from four international journals. The clauses and phrases were examined, not only the sentences to reach more fine-grained results. A top-down approach was carried out to analyze the rhetorical moves. Afterward, a bottom-up approach was applied to scrutinize the linguistic realizations. The findings demonstrated that the rhetorical moves and their constituent steps of the abstracts influenced the conformities of some linguistic features such as verb tense, verb type, verb function, and sentence voice. However, rhetorical moves considerably exemplified a variety of grammatical complexity, i.e. noun modifications in complex noun phrases as sentence subjects and objects. Communicative functions of the moves and steps also influenced lexical density level typically caused by more complex noun phrases than complex clauses. This study concludes that applied linguistics abstracts from international journals have typical conventions to adhere. Implication to materials development in corpusdriven genre pedagogy of English for research publication purposes and recommendations for future research are also presented. © 2020 Asian EFL Journal Press. All rights reserved.
Institut Agama Islam Negeri Samarinda, Indonesia; Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Indonesia
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