Naslov
Titles of Articles in Human Movement Science Journals

Autori
Medved Krajnović, Marta ; Omrčen, Darija

Izvornik
Studia Romanica et Anglica Zagrabiensia (0039-3339) 57 (2012); 123-139

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
scientific journals ; article titles ; structural construction ; type of information

Sažetak
The role of academic journals is well recognized by the members of scientifi c community. Consequently, the titles of articles published in them are also of importance since, by refl ecting the contents of articles, they consequently mirror the scientifi c inquiry done in a particular scientifi c discipline. The aim of our study was to identify possible diff erences in terms of structure and type of information conveyed in the 654 titles of articles published in two diff erent human movement science journals – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport and Kinesiology. The titles were analysed as regards their structural construction and the type of information that they present to prospective readers. The structural construction categories addressed the total of six groups: nominal group titles, compound titles (subsuming the nominal group/ nominal group combinations), full-sentence titles, question titles, compound titles consisting of a nominal group and a question, and compound titles consisting of a nominal group and a full sentence. Additional six groups were formed in terms of information that a title presents to a reader – the actual subject matt er of research without any additional information ; both the subject matt er of research and the information regarding a sample ; the subject matt er of research complemented by an information on a relation (eff ect, comparison, infl uence, diff erence, etc.) between the phenomena observed ; the subject of research supplemented by information both on a relation between the phenomena and on the sample ; the subject matt er extended by information on statistical method(s) used ; and the subject matt er accompanied by information both on the statistical method used and on the sample. Pearson chi-square test was used to identify any possible diff erences between the two journals as regards the structural (grammatical) construction and the type-of- information-conveyed categories of titles. The analysis showed that the titles in the two journals diff ered both in terms of their grammatical construction as well as in terms of the type of information conveyed. A tentative conclusion is therefore drawn that editorial policy is a decisive factor, although not the only one, both for the structural construction of the titles and for the types of information included in the titles.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Kineziologija, Filologija

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