The Structure of Philosophical Discourse

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.

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