Abstract

REBECCA, Beke. Academic Discourse: Knowledge Attribution in Educational Research. Núcleo [online]. 2008, vol.20, n.25, pp.13-36. ISSN 0798-9784.

 Knowledge attribution in citations is a characteristic that distinguishes the research article from other academic genres (Hyland, 2005; Swales, 1990). This study aimed at determining the citation practices of researchers of education when reporting what others have said or done in a corpus of twenty-eight research articles and twenty-eight pedagogical forums published in the Revista de Pedagogía between 2000 and 2005. The texts were processed using the linguistic softwares Wordsmith Tools and Word Pilot on the basis of established categories -non integral  and integral citations (Swales, 1990)- and their different syntactic and semantic realizations (Thompson & Tribble, 2001). The results indicate that writers of both genres show similar behavior in their citation practices. It is concluded that these tendencies are characteristic of the discipline and not of the genre.

Keywords : knowledge attribution; education; genres; academic discourse.