The Contrastive Move Analysis: An Investigation of Persian and English Research Articles’ Abstract and Introduction Parts

Abstract

The study of the generic and rhetorical structure of the research article genres and sub-genres is of crucial importance
in academic writing investigations. While the majority of such studies have mostly focused on articles written in English, the
analysis of the ‘moves’ in other languages might shed some light on cultural and linguistic variations in functional levels. The
present study investigated ten Persian and English Linguistics articles in terms of their moves in abstract and introduction parts.
Analysis was conducted by incorporating Hyland’s (2000) Information-Purpose-Methods-Products-Conclusion (IPuMPrC) model
and Swales’ (1990) the CreateAResearchSpace
model (CARS) for abstract and introduction parts, respectively. Findings
revealed that while the moves mentioned by Hyland (2000) and others are totally typical to English research articles, some
significant variations exist in Persian articles.