The Structure of Philosophical Discourse: A Genre and Move Analysis

Author:   Kyle Lucas ,  Sarah Lucas
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   280
Publication Date:   30 July 2025
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Author:   Kyle Lucas ,  Sarah Lucas
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9781032544557


ISBN 10:   1032544554
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   30 July 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Contents Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1 English for Specific Purposes, genre, and move analysis 1.2 Research space and motivation 1.3 Innovating genre and move analysis 1.4 Outline of remaining chapters Chapter 2: Genre across research traditions 2.1 ESP genre theory and Swales’ framework 2.2 Situating ESP genre theory: A comparative analysis 2.3 Criticisms and recent changes in the ESP tradition 2.4 The need for further theorizing Chapter 3: A cognitive theory of genre 3.1 A definition of genre 3.2 Genre frames 3.3 Illocutionary and perlocutionary frame elements 3.4 Prototypicality effects in text classification 3.5 The basic level 3.6 Conclusion Chapter 4: Introduction to move analysis 4.1 Move analysis overview 4.2 Building a corpus for move analysis 4.3 Analyzing the corpus 4.4 Refining move analysis 4.5 Conclusion Chapter 5: What move analysis has revealed about academic writing 5.1 What move analysis has revealed about research article sections 5.2 What move analysis has revealed about writing across the disciplines 5.3 New horizons for move analysis and linguistic analysis 5.4 Conclusion Chapter 6: Writing in philosophy 6.1 Move analysis studies of philosophical writing 6.2 Other forms of research on philosophical writing 6.3 Conclusion Chapter 7: The corpus of philosophical research articles 7.1 The discipline of philosophy 7.2 Overview of the philosophical research article corpus 7.3 Situational analysis of corpus 7.4 Representativeness of the corpus 7.5 Methodological framework: Move analysis and communicative functions 7.6 Conclusion Chapter 8: The macro-structure of philosophical discourse 8.1 The purpose and macro-structure of philosophy research articles 8.2 Macro-structures: Sequences and cycles 8.3 Discussion 8.4 Conclusion Chapter 9: The micro-structure of philosophical discourse 9.1 Moves and steps in the introduction 9.2 Moves and steps in the body of the work 9.3 Argumentative strategies 9.4 Moves and steps in the conclusion 9.5 Conclusion Chapter 10: Additional aspects of philosophical discourse 10.1 Overview of systemic functions 10.2 Footnotes 10.3 Key systemic functions 10.4 Conclusion Chapter 11: Conclusion 11.1 Notable findings 11.2 Broader significance 11.3 Limitations and future research Appendix: Corpus of research articles Index

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""Philosophers do not have very developed vocabularies for talking about the structure of philosophical writing, which does philosophy students at both the graduate and undergraduate levels a disservice. This work is part of the solution. Philosophers tend to lean on argument forms to describe writing, which rarely capture the global structure of a philosophy paper. By clearly distinguishing between the macro- and micro-structure within philosophical writing, the work goes a long way towards making visible the structure of papers in the central journals of analytic philosophy and will make an excellent resource for students and teachers of philosophy."" Christopher Yeomans, Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University ""In this comprehensive, groundbreaking, lucid, and very readable book, the authors employ both theoretical and empirical means to develop a clear and detailed description of philosophical discourse, working from and adding to the ESP research tradition, and, in the process, contributing new and productive insights into genre and move analysis."" Tony Silva, Professor Emeritus of English, Purdue University


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Kyle Lucas is a Instructor of Writing at Ferris State University, Michigan, USA. He received his PhD in English from Purdue University in 2022. Sarah Lucas is a PhD candidate in the Philosophy Department at Purdue University, Indiana, USA, and a Full-Time Lecturer in Philosophy at Ferris State University, Michigan, USA.

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