Corpus-based rhetorical analysis of the sub-genre of instruction manuals for household appliances
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Keywords

rhetorical move analysis
instruction manuals
English for Science and Technology (EST)
instructional genre
análisis de movimientos retóricos
manuales de instrucciones
lenguaje científico-técnico
género de la instrucción

How to Cite

Cristobalena Frutos, A. (2018). Corpus-based rhetorical analysis of the sub-genre of instruction manuals for household appliances. Ibérica, (36), 143–170. Retrieved from https://www.revistaiberica.org/index.php/iberica/article/view/126

Abstract

My aim in this paper is to describe the rhetorical structure of the sub-genre of Instruction Manuals for household appliances in British English (BE) and Peninsular Spanish (PS). This study is based on the concept of genre, and it consists of a move analysis of an ad hoc specialised corpus. The analysis has two discrete parts: a qualitative analysis to establish the structure of this sub-genre; and a quantitative one, to identify the presence of each feature in order to determine the prototypical structure of this sub-genre. Finally, some possible implications of these findings are presented
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