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whereas its realisation in the American group is both direct and indirect. Vocatives addressing full names and often the function of politicians always assume the role of boundary markers, which mark the border between the opening and the first topic cycle. This boundary marker is parallel to the one found in the closing of the interview. Initial component – An exchange of greetings, i.e. the initial component, is a mandatory move in the British and the Montenegrin group of political interviews. It is accomplished most consistently in the Montenegrin openings, where its frequency is high and its realisation is complete. In the British introductions, the move is accomplished mostly incompletely, and very often, the realisation of the adjacency pair is interrupted with an insertion sequence. In the structure of the American openings, the initial component appears only rarely (30%), which is in accordance with the evaluation that these interviews are the most dynamic. Greeting the audience – The move greeting the audience is necessary only in the structure of Montenegrin political interview openings, where it is always accomplished using standard phrases. The American and the British groups do not feature this move, not even optionally. Show / broadcasting company introduction – As with the move greeting the audience, this move turned out mandatory only in the Montenegrin openings. By using this move, the show is very precisely located in the outside context. We have seen that the process of entering an interview, however (no matter how?) brief, actually fulfils a variety of important linguistic, journalistic and social functions. REFERENCES Bhatia, V. (1993). Analysing Genre: Language Use in Professional Settings. London and New York: Longman. Clayman, S. (1991). News Interview Openings: Aspects of Sequential Organisation. In P. Scannel (ed.), Broadcast Talk. London, Newbury Park, New Delhi: Sage Publications. 48-75. Fairclough, N. & Chourliaraki, L. (1999). Discourse in Late Modernity: Rethinking Critical Discourse Analysis. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Francis, G. & Hunston, S. (1992). Analysing Everyday Conversation. In M. Coulthard (ed.), Advances in Spoken Discourse Analysis, London and New York: Routledge. 123-161. Heritage, J. & Clayman, S. (2002). The News Interview: Journalists and Public Figures on the Air. Cambridge: CUP. Martinez, E. R. (2001). Political Interviews, Talk Show Interviews, and Debates on British TV: a Contrastive Study of the Interactional Organisation of Three Broadcast Genres. Santiago de Compostela: Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. Sinclair, J. & Coulthard, M. (1992). Towards an Analysis of Discourse. In M. Coulthard (ed.), Advances in Spoken Discourse Analysis. London and New York: Routledge. 1- 34. Swales, J.M. (1990). Genre Analysis. Cambridge: CUP. MILICA VUKOVIĆ Jovana Tomaševića 37 20000 Podgorica, Montenegro 78
THE RHETORICAL STRUCTURE OF RESEARCH ARTICLE ABSTRACTS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE BRANKA ŽIVKOVIĆ University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro mobydick@t-com.me ABSTRACT A substantial number of professional and academic journals are published annually. Members of academic discourse community are faced with the difficulty of finding specific data in lengthy research articles. Therefore, the abstract, as an independent genre, plays a significant role, especially in situations when potential readers have to decide whether to read a specific research article or not. The aim of this paper is to present the rhetorical structure identified using Bhatia’s model (1993). The analysis goes further to explain the distinctive linguistic features of each move respectively. The analysis is based on 48 research article abstracts, written by academic writers and taken from prominent British journals in three fields of political science: social, election and foreign policy. The results suggest that Bhatia’s model should be supplemented with two additional moves. Keywords: Research Article Abstracts; Rhetorical Structure; Model; Political Science 1. INTRODUCTION This paper deals with the analysis of research article abstracts in the field of political science by the means of methods and principles of discourse analysis, or, more precisely, genre analysis, which has developed as an approach within discourse analysis, with reliance on academic discourse. 1.1. DISCOURSE ANALYSIS Discourse analysis explores the language units above the sentence level, taking into consideration whole texts in a communication context. This approach goes a step further in comparison to register analysis, which spread especially in the 1960s, emphasising the structures higher in hierarchy than sentences, whether it comes to spoken or written discourse (Lakić 1999). It is possible to perceive discourse as an interaction between a writer and a reader (Bhatia 1993), which is achieved by means of respecting Grice’s cooperative principles on the part of the writer and interlocutors in the spoken discourse as well (Grice 2006). Although this approach made it possible to connect language forms with language use (Dudley-Evans & St John 1998), discourse analysis, viewed from the genre analysis perspective, could not examine special types of texts, but only general characteristics of the discipline those texts belonged to. On one hand, this approach lacked an adequate analysis and a thicker description of socio-cultural, institutional and organisational constraints and on the other, little attention was paid to the conventional 79
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