Discourse Analysis of the Research Articles About Marine Environment Relating to the Adriatic Coast
Discourse analysis of the research articles about marine environment relating to the Adriatic coast reveals a variety of discursive features about marine environmental issues. There are many papers about marine biodiversity, uniqueness, and tourist attrac
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ontents 1 Introduction 2 Methodology 3 Results and Discussions 3.1 Background: Setting the Scene 3.2 Indicating Gaps and Flows 3.3 Presenting the Research 3.4 Marine or Maritime? 3.5 Presenting Conclusions 4 Conclusion References
Abstract Discourse analysis of the research articles about marine environment relating to the Adriatic coast reveals a variety of discursive features about marine environmental issues. There are many papers about marine biodiversity, uniqueness, and tourist attractiveness of the highly valued marine destinations along the Adriatic coast. The discourse analysis of the articles applied in this paper was aimed at establishing language peculiarities from surface to pragmatic level. Apart from the identification of the conventional structure of the research articles in this field, the paper also ran a qualitative analysis focused on the current questions about the Adriatic coast. In this paper, the research articles about the marine environment were used as a corpus for textual analysis. Based on theoretical knowledge of the critical discourse approach and genre analysis, the paper explored the academic research texts about the Adriatic coast. Employing Swales’s moves model, the standardized surface structure of the research texts about the Adriatic coast was established. Description of data relied on the conceptual knowledge derived from the referent M. Dževerdanović-Pejović (*) Faculty of Maritime Studies Kotor, University of Montenegro, Kotor, Montenegro e-mail: [email protected] Danijela Joksimović, Mirko Đurović, Igor S. Zonn, Andrey G. Kostianoy, and Aleksander V. Semenov (eds.), The Montenegrin Adriatic Coast: Marine Chemistry Pollution, Hdb Env Chem, DOI 10.1007/698_2020_652, © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
M. Dževerdanović-Pejović
books about the marine environment domain. The results of the interdisciplinary approach in this paper outlined contemporary issues concerning the discourse community of the marine environment academics researching about the Adriatic coast. Keywords Adriatic coast, Discourse analysis, Marine, Marine environment, Marine research texts, Maritime
1 Introduction There are many definitions of genre in a linguistic sense regarding the standard linguistic features used by a specific discourse community. The notion of “family resemblance” [1] is used to point out to similarities in topics, form, and the content of genres. Linguist Swales [2] provided a fundamental notion in the studies of a discourse community. Swales put emphasis on the goals and objectives that the members of a specific speech community have in common. They are labelled discourse communities, and their members are connected with the same communicative purposes. Moreover, members of a particular discourse community apply specific discourse and communicative means in their language activities. Professional members, within their discourse fields, are familiar with genres they use in communication within their professional communities, by written or verbal media. In doing so, they use similar genres
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