FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF GRAMMATICAL SUBJECT IN RESEARCH ARTICLE INTRODUCTIONS WRITTEN BY NOVICE WRITERS
Refnaldi

Universitas Negeri Padang

Abstract

This study investigates the types and discourse functions of grammatical subjects in research article introductions written by Indonesian novice writers in five language teaching journals. This study was carried out on a corpus of 50 research article introductions (10 from each journal) published from 2018 to 2022. The corpus was analysed based on Gosden^s (1993) classifications that include 16 types of grammatical subject. The results indicated that 10 types of grammatical subject were used in the corpus and the frequencies of these types varied across the five journals. Besides, the results reported high similarities concerning the discourse functions served using the grammatical subject types. Thus, it can be stated that the way the writers select and use the discourse functions of the grammatical subject types are imposed by conventions of writing research article introductions. In addition, the results of this study manifest a new framework for the analysis of discourse functions of grammatical subject types in research article introductions.

Keywords: grammatical subject- discourse function- language teaching journal- research article introduction

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