MOVE ANALYSIS OF HUMANITIES DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS IN INDONESIAN AND ENGLISH HIGHER INSTITUTIONS: A comparative study

Move analysis investigates the rhetorical patterns of texts. This approach focuses on the communicative purposes and rhetorical strategies referred to as moves and steps. This study aims to disclose whether authors' backgrounds affect the rhetorical organization and linguistic realizations in the dissertation abstracts. Embracing the corpus-based approach, this study analyzed 120 humanities abstracts from a total of four universities in England and Indonesia. Hyland’s (2000) model was adopted as the analysis guideline. In terms of rhetorical organization, the present study revealed the Introduction – Purpose – Method – Product as the most common pattern in both data groups. With regard to the linguistic features realization, the Indonesian data differ from the English counterparts by mostly utilizing Relational Verbs (Rv) but resembles each other in terms of verb tense, voice, and modality preferences. Further comparative research on this particular topic with different subjects of data is suggested.