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Yuanyuan Fan , Noor Mala Ibrahimb , Yuanyuan Yang ·

YOU? · · 2025 · Open Access · · DOI: https://doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1511.21

Introduction and discussion sections in research articles (RAs) are more complicated than in academic essays. These sections’ rhetorical structures and linguistic phenomena have received considerable attention. Despite the interest, however, few studies have examined negation in the structure of RA introductions and discussions. This study, therefore, contains preliminary research on the distribution, types, and functions of negation in the move-step of the two sections in applied linguistics. Two corpora—Introduction Corpus and Discussion Corpus—were established using data concerning applied linguistics. The theoretical model of negation and move-step models of introductions and discussions were selected as the analytical frameworks. The results reveal that writers are inclined to use various negative markers in the two sections, especially in discussions. Furthermore, regarding functional uses in introductions, interactive negation helps establish a research territory by reviewing previous studies, and interactional negation creates a research niche by critically evaluating previous work and identifying gaps. In discussions, writers tend to employ interactive negation to report results and summarise research and interactional negation to comment on results and assess the research. Additionally, interactive negation is more commonly used than interactional negation to create a coherent structure in RA introductions and discussions in applied linguistics. The findings may be pedagogically significant for providing negation instruction and guiding learning in academic writing.

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