چکیده:
The present study probed into the citation behavior and intertextuality use of EFL
writers. The literature sections of 12 BA projects and those of 12 MA theses in
applied linguistics written by the same writers were compared in terms of
intertextuality and citation types. The results showed that the most frequent
intertextuality type in both BA projects and MA theses was the unconventional
intertextuality. The second frequent type was conventional intertextuality which was
more frequent in MA projects due to the educational conditions and the readership.
The third frequent type was ‘deceptive’ used equally in both undergraduate and MA
projects. As for the citation behavior, the most frequent one in both MA and BA
projects was the integral citation whose sub-type ‘verb controlling’ was more
frequent in MA and its non-citation subtype was more frequent in BA projects
probably due to cultural reasons or because of the students’ ignorance of the
functions and applications of citation types. This type was followed by improper
citations and non-integral citations in both BA and MA projects. As for the
relationship between intertextuality and citation, the results showed a strong
relationship between unconventional intertextuality and improper citations in B.A
projects, a weak correlation between conventional intertextuality and both nonintegral
and integral citations in B.A projects, a strong correlation between
conventional intertextuality and both integral and non-integral citations in M.A
theses and also a weak correlation between unconventional intertextuality and
improper citations in M.A theses. Moreover, in both MA theses and BA projects,
conventional intertextuality included all subcategories of non-integral citations and
two subcategories of integral citations including verb-controlling and naming.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Citation Behavior and Intertextuality in EFL Writing: The Case of EFL Writers’ Undergraduate Projects and Their MA Theses Compared Hossein Pourghasemian1*, Mostafa Shahiditabar2, Mohammad Baqerzadeh Hosseini3 1* Assistant Professor of English Language Center, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Qom University of Technology, Iran, pourghasemian@qut.
Therefore, comparing undergraduate projects with the MA theses of EFL students might illuminate the changes (if any) likely to occur in the writing of EFL writers especially as far as the types of employed intertextuality and the types of citations are concerned.
Textually, this type of intertextuality is not always easily 38 Journal of Modern Research in English Language Studies 5(3),31-54 (2018) recognizable from the unconventional intertextuality; the major distinguishing factor here is the writer’s intention to deceive the reader on the real relationship between the text and its specific source (Pecorari & Shaw, 2012).
The third type was the deceptive intertextuality whose only difference with the unconventional intertextuality is the intention of the writer to hide the real relationship between the intertext and the text from which it is 46 Journal of Modern Research in English Language Studies 5(3),31-54 (2018) adopted.
This type of intertextuality which is generally referred to as plagiarism in both BA projects and MA theses can be accounted for by different factors such as environmental, cultural, and linguistic or developmental causes (Craig, 2004; Currie,1998; Deckert, 1992; Evans &Youmans, 2000).