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Linguistic structure of dentistry thesis titles in spanish

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No. 56 (2020): Segundo semestre

Abstract

Titles play a fundamental role in the academic discourse. Studies on scientific article titles in English predominate. However, to date no studies on thesis titles in dentistry has been reported. We analyzed the discourse structure of 200 thesis titles defended in 2000-2019, and available on the web. In the analysis we examine qualitatively and quantitatively: length, punctuation, lexical grammatical structure and internal rhetorical combinations of the titles. An average of 19 words was found. Four types of titles were identified: nominal (86%), compound (12.5 %), prepositional (0.5 %), non-personal verbal (0.5 %), and complete sentence titles (0.5 %). Four rhetorical combinations of the title components were obtained: topicmethod; topic-method; topic-scope; and topic-description. Nominal constructions predominate using prepositional phrases (97 %), adjectives (30 %), non-personal verbal phrases (25 %), and relative clauses (5 %) as postmodifiers. Results provide useful information for teaching the writing process of thesis titles in dentistry.

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academic writing, dentistry, lexical analysis, morphosyntactic analysis, thesis titles

Author Biographies

Oscar Alberto Morales, Universidad de Los Andes

Universidad de Los Andes (Venezuela). Universidad de Los Hemisferios (Ecuador)

Bexi Perdomo, Universidad de Los Andes

Universidad de Los Andes (Venezuela). Toulouse Lautrec e Innova Scientific (Perú)

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Morales, O. A., Perdomo, B., Cassany, D., Tovar, R. M., & Izarra, Élix. (2021). Linguistic structure of dentistry thesis titles in spanish. Lenguas Modernas, (56), pp. 61–84. Retrieved from https://revistas.uchile.cl/index.php/LM/article/view/61510
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