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A genre-based model of rhetorical structure in scoping review introductions
Training, Language and Culture. 2025. Vol. 9. No. 4. P. 35–55.
Elena V. Tikhonova, Kosycheva M. A.
As genre modelling advances, describing research articles rhetorical structures becomes crucial. Though secondary to empirical studies, scoping reviews shape scholarly communication by framing analysis and setting epistemological benchmarks. Their introductions act as conceptual lenses, defining interpretive frameworks. However, most rhetorical models, designed for empirical articles, appear to be inadequate for scoping reviews. We propose a genre-based model of rhetorical structure for introductions to scoping reviews. Drawing on a corpus of 40 introductions from Q1 Education journals (2020–2025), we conduct step-bystep move analysis to reconstruct a three-move, nine-step schema tailored to the genre’s analytical mission. The methodological framework employs step-bystep rhetorical annotation, focusing on rhetorical functions, linguistic realisations, and deviations from normative structural expectations. Results show two core steps reproduced in ≥ 97% of the corpus (1.1 ‘scope nomination’ and 2.2 ‘task as reconstruction’), while epistemological positioning (3.2) is comparatively infrequent and often implicit. Median Jaccard of 0.63 indicates a teachable core with optional, stance-related elements; clustering reveals three stable structural profiles. We synthesise functionally efficient phrasings for each step and demonstrate linguistic correlates of stance (e.g., evaluative and hedging verbs/adverbs) relevant to Step 3.2. The model clarifies how introductions to scoping reviews motivate synthesis, frame analytical lenses, and set reconstruction boundaries. Pedagogically, it supports move-aware writing instruction; computationally, it provides patterns for automatic rhetorical tagging and metadiscourse-aware feature design. This study thus contributes to the formalisation and operationalisation of academic discourse analysis.
Pershkina A., Slovĕne 2026 Т. 15 № 1 С. 174–192
The article newly presents archival materials from the Directorate of Imperial Theaters relative to the organization of a crocodile exhibition held in St. Petersburg Passage department store in the autumn of 1864, along with newspaper reports on the event. The close analysis of specific articles demonstrates that this exhibition served as the direct inspiration and ...
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Dezi A., Sesto San Giovanni: Mimesis, 2026.
This book is a metaphysical inquiry into the nature and origin of the manifold. Taking Schelling’s Erlangen lectures of 1820–1821 as its point of departure and hermeneutic horizon, it develops an interpretation of Nomos that transcends its political, juridical, and social determinations. Nomos thereby emerges as the ontological principle of an infinite, variegated multiplicity of ...
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Файзов Д., М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2026.
Новая книга Д. Файзова пронизана голосами других поэтов. Речь не о расхожей постмодернистской центонности. Это микроинтертекстуальность на уровне конкретных слов и приемов, коллаж осколков чужих голосов, однако таких осколков, которые сохраняют способность отсылать к целому и к тому же вписаны — вклеены на манер аппликации — в узнаваемую интонацию самого поэта. Данил Файзов—поэт, культуртрегер, редактор. ...
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Vinogradov A., Rodionov O., Travaux et Memoires 2026 Vol. 30 No. 2 P. 1075–1089
This article examines the manuscript tradition of Kallistos Angelikoudes’ Hesychastic consolation, a fluid and complex corpus of thirty Logoi preserved primarily in Vat. gr. 736. The authors survey all known witnesses—including the autograph Barb. gr. 420, the Lond. Arund. 520, and several later copies—and analyze their textual relationships, variant readings, and codicological features. They demonstrate ...
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Громенко Е. С., Krongauz M., Антропологический форум 2026 № 70 С. 163–183
The paper describes the construction litso takoy-to natsionalnosti ‘a person of such-and-such an ethnicity’ in Russian with its semantic and pragmatic characteristics. The purpose of the study is to trace the appearance of the construction and analyse how it is used and how it is perceived. Three expressions representing this construction are considered in more ...
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Поцелуев В. А., Ural-Altaic Studies 2026 Vol. 62 No. 3 P. 62–81
In recent years, the researchers working on Uralic languages within Minimalism seem to have built a consensus on how to define the
position of negation in any language with a negative verb. The main and usually the only argument is based on the work [Mitchell 2006].
The argument is as follows: if the negative verb expresses tense, ...
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Государственный университет просвещения, 2026.
Настоящее издание представляет собой коллективный труд, посвящённый юбилеям основателей-руководителей научных школ лингвистического факультета Государственного университета просвещения Максименко Ольги Ивановны, доктора филологических наук, профессора, профессора кафедры теории языка, англистики и прикладной лингвистики, Председателя
диссертационного совета 72.2.020.05 и Хухуни Георгия Теймуразовича, доктора филологических
наук, профессора, профессора кафедры теории языка, англистики и прикладной лингвистики.
Цель издания – обобщение современных достижений в ...
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Zevakhina N., Щипкова А. А., Chinkova A., Voprosy Jazykoznanija 2025 No. 2 P. 105–122
This paper presents experimental evidence for the over-specification (redundant use) of Thai postnominal
numerals in referential communication. The first experiment reveals high rates of over-specification
in oral responses that include Thai postnominal and Russian prenominal numerals tested in a contrastive
multi-number visual context. The second experiment demonstrates lower but still relatively high
rates of over-specification in written responses that ...
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Вилинбахова Е. Л., Zevakhina N., Terra Linguistica 2025 Т. 16 № 3 С. 13–30
Настоящая работа посвящена исследованию употреблений испанского глагола resultar ‘оказываться’ в рамках эвиденциального подхода и подхода возникновения нового знания, представленных в литературе. Согласно первому подходу, глагол resultar передает
инферентивное значение: субъект оценки делает умозаключение на основании наблюдаемых
результатов. Сторонники второго подхода считают основным компонентом семантики глагола
возникновение нового знания, а инферентивное значение объясняется воздействием других
элементов контекста. В работе каждый ...
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Zevakhina N., Пономарева П., Краснощёкова С., Acta linguistica Petropolitana 2025 Vol. 21 No. 2 P. 270–286
The paper reports on an experimental study that reveals a difference
between two types of under-informative utterances with the quantifier “nekotoryj”
(‘some’) in Russian. The experiment was conducted as an inference task based on [Geurts,
Pouscoulous 2009; Val Tiel et al. 2016] with some modifications. The experiment
showed that both types of utterances more often have inference-based interpretations
rather than ...
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Zevakhina N., Voprosy Jazykoznanija 2026 No. 3 P. 54–70
The paper demonstrates that the Russian particle mol exhibits a combination of properties associated
with direct, indirect, and free indirect discourse (FID). First, mol-clauses license shiftable linguistic
items (adverbial indexicals, expressive speech acts, imperatives, evaluative lexical items) not
only in FID, as typically assumed for such linguistic items, but also in indirect discourse. Second,
first- and second-person pronouns in ...
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Sigdel E., Zevakhina N., Krasnoschekova S., Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature 2026 Vol. 23 No. 1 P. 217–234
The paper investigates Russian interrogatives and exclamatives with multiple wh-phrases based on two experiments, with additional support of the data from the Russian National Corpus. Since exclamatives are often viewed parallel to interrogatives, it is important to study both types of clauses with multiple wh-phrases alongside and to look for similarities and/or differences in their ...
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Куликова В. А., Гусев А. Д., Токунова П. В., Коммуникативные исследования 2026 Т. 13 № 2 С. 355–369
The article examines the semantic and pragmatic features of cognitive terms functioning in modern Russian-language media texts. The study aims to describe the specifics of using cognitive terminology in contexts aimed at expressing evaluation. The relevance of the work is driven by the active processes of mediatization and determinologization, as a result of which scientific ...
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Мытарева А. В., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Литературоведение, журналистика 2026 Т. 31 № 1 С. 39–48
The article examines the story “Chemodanov”, 1916, as a parodic version of a hagiography (anti-life), as well as a version of the collision “Man - Fate” developed in the work of Leonid Andreev. The first part of the article provides an analysis of the existing context: some features of the writer's artistic world are identified, ...
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Куликова В. А., Человек: образ и сущность. Гуманитарные аспекты 2026 № 1 С. 64–81
The verbal representation of a city is studied using the material of 993 contexts containing a description of a city in postcards of the pre-revolutionary, Soviet and post-Soviet periods. The object of the analysis is the frame-structure CITY, whilst the subject of the analysis is the features of its verbalization in the corpus of postal ...
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J. Kuzmenkova, M. Erykina, , in: Топология филологического поиска.: М.: «КДУ», «Добросвет», 2022. P. 296–306.
In view of the growing demand for effectively written research articles especially by non-native scholars the authors attempt to draw EAP teachers’ attention to different options to guide novices on the field focusing on unifying existing procedures and incorporating innovations. The article reports on the results of the experimental study targeting 96 postgraduates who faced ...
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L.: Routledge, 2024.
Routledge Russian Language Pedagogy and Research features edited volumes and monographs on the advances in the research and pedagogy of teaching the Russian language. Written by experts from across the world, the series brings together diverse schools of thought and serves as an inclusive discussion forum showcasing state-of-the-art advances in teaching and researching Russian. ...
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Gritsenko E.S, Kamou O.M., Russian Journal of Linguistics 2024 Vol. 28 No. 3 P. 615–632
Many studies addressing the differences in the use of lexical bundles in academic English by L1 and L2 writers interpret these differences as a deficiency or deviation that L2 writers need to eliminate. In this paper, we argue that this “deviant” use is not essentially the product of insufficient knowledge of English and/or Anglophone norms ...
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Nuriiat Omarovna Omarova, , in: The Youth in Science: Challenges and Prospects.: [б.и.], 2024. P. 64–72.
Hedges, expressions of doubt used in writing to tone down claims, are crucial in academic discourse, as they weaken assertions and make texts less categorical. Even though hedging in academic writing has attracted scholars’ attention, the number of works focusing on disciplinary variation in the use of hedges in L2 learners’ texts remains relatively scarce. ...
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Куликова В. А., В кн.: Динамика коммуникативных практик в почтовой переписке (на материале корпуса «Пишу тебе»).: М.: Издательство РОИФН, 2024. Гл. 3 С. 92–130.
В главе 3 «Оценочная лексика в почтовой коммуникации: динамический аспект» (В.А. Куликова) изучается динамика на примере отдельной лексической подсистемы – качественных прилагательных с оценочной семантикой. Изучено функционирование оценочных прилагательных и их дериватов в текстах дореволюционных, советских, постсоветских открыток: вхождение оценочных лексем в списки ключевых слов и уникальных слов, изменения в частотности и функционировании оценочных лексем. ...
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Kirina M., Лукьянчикова А. С., В кн.: Русская и зарубежная филология в диалоге культур : материалы Всероссийской научно-практической конференции с международным участием (г. Ростов-на-Дону, 19–21 октября 2023 г.).: Издательство Южного федерального университета, 2024. С. 16–20.
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Trnavac R., Зборник Матице српске за филологију и лингвистику 2020 Vol. 63 No. 2 P. 139–153
AUTHORIAL STANCE EXPRESSED WITH GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURES IN EDITORIALS AND ONLINE COMMENTS IN RUSSIAN S u m m a r y This paper describes major patterns of register variation between editorials and online news comments based on the use of a wide range of lexico-grammatical structures that express stance in Russian. While applying the methodology of ...
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Smirnova E. A., Language Learning in Higher Education 2022 Vol. 12 No. 2 P. 453–475
Syntactic complexity has been extensively approached in the fields of corpus linguistics and academic discourse studies. However, works focusing on disciplinary variation in terms of linguistic complexity and comparison of professional and novice academic writing are scarce. Addressing these issues is likely to have important implications for EAP/ESP practitioners in terms of selection of target ...
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Perez-Guerra J., Smirnova E. A., , in: CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Proceedings of the International Conference "Internet and Modern Society" (IMS-2021), St. Petersburg, 24 - 26 June 2021.: CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2021. P. 291–296.
This study deals with the analysis of syntactic complexity in professional academic writing and is based on a corpus of so-called ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ papers published in leading international journals. We aim at describing the main complexity features of academic discourse and testing the hypothesis that there is considerable disciplinary variation in linguistic complexity. We ...
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