Tipos y funciones de las citas en artículos de investigación de tres disciplinas*

Abstract

Within the investigative framework of linguistic characteristics in Research Articles throughout the disciplines, this work presents a description of the types and functions of citations in a corpus comprised of three disciplines: linguistics, philosophy and therapeutic psychology. Using different categories (types and functions), citations from six articles were analyzed textually. Despite the relative proximity of the disciplines taken into consideration in the corpus, the results show a marked disciplinary variation, in types as well as functions, in this kind of text. These results suggest that citations as a characteristic feature of research articles do not have a homogeneous use nor function and that this variation indicates a relation with the discipline it pertains to.