Unveiling the Argumentative Nature of Meta-Analysis in Applied Linguistics: An Argument-Mining Approach
Despite paradigmatic research advancements and movements in applied linguistics, the issue of rhetoric, which serves as one of the fundamental pillars of each paradigm, remains largely unaccounted for. Considering the commensurability of argumentation and meta-analysis, coupled with the increasi...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin,
2023-10-01
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| Series: | Journal of Modern Research in English Language Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://jmrels.journals.ikiu.ac.ir/article_3075_f3c7378427f66746d856e4d248db1ffe.pdf |
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| Summary: | Despite paradigmatic research advancements and movements in applied
linguistics, the issue of rhetoric, which serves as one of the fundamental
pillars of each paradigm, remains largely unaccounted for. Considering the
commensurability of argumentation and meta-analysis, coupled with the
increasing rate of meta-analytic studies in the field of applied linguistics,
there arises a need to examine the argumentation behavior of applied
linguistics’ meta-analysts. As such, following research synthesis techniques
and an argument-mining approach, we examined the academic
argumentation genre of meta-analysis published in leading applied
linguistics journals through argument-mining techniques in light of the
modified Toulmin framework proposed by Qin and Karabacak (2010). The
current study, employing the modified Toulmin framework, examined the
argumentative writing components represented in the introduction section
of 54 meta-analytic studies published in leading journals of applied
linguistics through argument-mining techniques. Our findings highlight the
complexity and argumentativeness of the meta-analysis genre. We further
found that the Modified Toulmin Model is implementable for the task of
argument mining, which can have a great impact on argumentation, metaanalysis, and argumentative academic writing. Implications and
recommendations for academic argumentative writers and meta-analyzers
are discussed |
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| ISSN: | 2676-5357 |