The comparative genre analysis of psychology journal articles and popularized psychology texts in e-magazines and e-journals

摘要

This article discusses the results of an investigation on the loadings of lexicogrammatical features in a corpus of 69795 words constituted by texts in English from two different genres: the research article and the science popularization article in the discipline of psychology. Drawing on the principles of systemic functional grammar approach to language, it focuses on the distribution of lexicogrammatical features as factors indicating interpersonal and social relationships in the text. It is argued that the distribution of some of these features has a higher loading in one genre compared to other genres due to the communicative purpose of that specific genre.