KEY TYPES OF ACADEMIC TEXTS IN JAPANESE-LANGUAGE JOURNALS

Authors

  • Rodrigo Moura Lima de Aragão Faculdade de Tecnologia de Itaquera Professor Miguel Reale, São Paulo, Brasil

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/2318-7115.2017v39i1a7

Keywords:

Academic Japanese, Japanese for specific purposes, Academic writing, Scholarly publication

Abstract

Little is known about the types of academic texts published in Japanese journals—except for ronbun (the Japanese scholarly article or paper). This paper sheds some light on the issue by reporting results of an analysis of documents from 88 journals on J-Stage (Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic), a free-access, multidisciplinary, electronic collection of Japanese academic publications. The first step in the process was to find frequent designations in the documents, which were considered clues to chief types of texts. The next step was to describe how Japanese journals conceive the types previously identified. This was done by collecting, translating, and summarizing explanatory excerpts about them. The results may serve as points of departure for including Japanese academic writing in the teaching of Japanese.

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Author Biography

Rodrigo Moura Lima de Aragão, Faculdade de Tecnologia de Itaquera Professor Miguel Reale, São Paulo, Brasil

Rodrigo Moura Lima de ARAGÃO - M.A. in Japanese Language, Literature and Culture. M.A. in Philology and Portuguese Language. Lecturer in Communication and Research Methods at Faculdade de Tecnologia de Itaquera Professor Miguel Reale, Brazil. E-mail address: aragao_rodrigo@yahoo.com.br

 

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2018-07-27

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Aragão, R. M. L. de. (2018). KEY TYPES OF ACADEMIC TEXTS IN JAPANESE-LANGUAGE JOURNALS. The ESPecialist, 39(1). https://doi.org/10.23925/2318-7115.2017v39i1a7

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