A Corpus Based Study of Citation Practices and Reporting Verbal Forms in Pakistani English Social Sciences Research Articles
A Corpus Based Study of Citation Practices and Reporting Verbal Forms in Pakistani English Social Sciences Research Articles
Keywords:
cognition acts, discourse acts, evaluative functions, integral citations, reporting verbs, research actsAbstract
An individual’s research is of no use unless and until it is put on the paper for the curious eyes
and the critical minds. But to make a study persuasive and to put it in a context, one needs to
have an integration of one’s ideas with the previously conducted studies. Such integration of
ideas helps the researchers to strengthen their point of view. For citation purpose, the use of
reporting verbs carries different meanings and functions with it. The current paper is a corpusbased study, conducted to compile a corpus of literature review sections of Pakistani English
research articles to explore the citation practices with a focus on different forms and functions of
Reporting verbs as used in these sections. Using AntConc (3.2.1) and Sketch engine concordance
program, a corpus of 157,997 words was searched to find different forms of Reporting verbs
followed by a discussion of evaluative functions attached to these RVs. A total number of 65
Reporting verbs were identified used for 781 times occurring in different patterns. The evaluative
functions attached to the RVs show the writers’ approval of the previous works. The absence of
critical and counter-factive verbs shows that the writers did not criticize and synthesize the
previous works. Only a few examples with the use of adverbials and few counter verbs show a
critical stance of the writers. The study lays stress on the importance of the teaching and learning
of Reporting verbs to master effective citation practices
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