The Structure of Philosophical Discourse

ISBN-13: 9781032539911 / Twarda / 2024 / 210 str.

Sarah Lucas

Opis

This book builds on existing work in genre analysis and move analysis in English for Specific Purposes and applies this new framework to academic philosophical discourse, offering new insights into how ESP traditions can elucidate shifts in language conventions across disciplinary contexts.

Recenzje

"Philosophers do not have very developed vocabularies for talking about the structure of philosophical writing, which does philosophy students at both the graduate and undergraduate levels a disservice.  This work is part of the solution.  Philosophers tend to lean on argument forms to describe writing, which rarely capture the global structure of a philosophy paper.  By clearly distinguishing between the macro- and micro-structure within philosophical writing, the work goes a long way towards making visible the structure of papers in the central journals of analytic philosophy and will make an excellent resource for students and teachers of philosophy."

Christopher Yeomans, Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University

"In this comprehensive, groundbreaking, lucid, and very readable book, the authors employ both theoretical and empirical means to develop a clear and detailed description of philosophical discourse, working from and adding to the ESP research tradition, and, in the process, contributing new and productive insights into genre and move analysis."

Tony Silva, Professor Emeritus of English, Purdue University

Spis treści

Contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction

English for Specific Purposes, genre, and move analysis

Research space and motivation

Innovating genre and move analysis

Outline of remaining chapters

 

Chapter 2: Genre across research traditions

ESP genre theory and Swales’ framework

Situating ESP genre theory: A comparative analysis

Criticisms and recent changes in the ESP tradition

The need for further theorizing 

 

Chapter 3: A cognitive theory of genre

A definition of genre

Genre frames

Illocutionary and perlocutionary frame elements

Prototypicality effects in text classification

The basic level

Conclusion

 

Chapter 4: Introduction to move analysis

Move analysis overview

Building a corpus for move analysis

Analyzing the corpus

Refining move analysis

Conclusion

 

Chapter 5: What move analysis has revealed about academic writing

What move analysis has revealed about research article sections

What move analysis has revealed about writing across the disciplines 

New horizons for move analysis and linguistic analysis 

Conclusion

 

Chapter 6: Writing in philosophy

Move analysis studies of philosophical writing

Other forms of research on philosophical writing

Conclusion

 

Chapter 7: The corpus of philosophical research articles

The discipline of philosophy

Overview of the philosophical research article corpus

Situational analysis of corpus

Representativeness of the corpus

Methodological framework: Move analysis and communicative functions

Conclusion

 

Chapter 8: The macro structure of philosophical discourse

The purpose and macro-structure of philosophy research articles

Macro-structures: Sequences and cycles

Discussion

Conclusion

 

Chapter 9: The micro-structure of philosophical discourse

Moves and steps in the introduction

Moves and steps in the body of the work

Argumentative strategies

Moves and steps in the conclusion

Conclusion

 

Chapter 10: Additional aspects of philosophical discourse

Overview of systemic functions

FOOTNOTES

Key systemic functions

Conclusion

 

Chapter 11: Conclusion

Notable findings

Broader significance

Limitations and future research

 

Appendix: Corpus of research articles

Index

 

O autorze

Kyle Lucas is a Instructor of Writing at Ferris State University, USA. He received his PhD in English from Purdue University in 2022.

Sarah Lucas is a PhD candidate in the Philosophy Department at Purdue University, USA, and a full-time lecturer in Philosophy at Ferris State University, USA.