Abstract
Horoscopes are in fact the astrological diagrams that show
the position of the Sun, Moon and the main planets. They also comprise of the
astrological aspects between these elements.
Undoubtedly, horoscope is considered
one of the most interesting articles in which attention of people from all over
the world is captured. There seems to be a rhetorical organization prevailing
in any piece of writing assisting to them to overcome successfully difficult
reading. This study attempts to identify rhetorical organization, at the level
of macrostructure, and linguistic features commonly used in English articles as
well as in Russian horoscopes. The study also aims to contrast Move Order in
horoscopes of both languages. The research uses qualitative as well as
quantitative methods. The corpus encompasses weekly horoscopes in English for
12 zodiac signs for the period from 12/04/2020 to 18/04/2020, and weekly
horoscopes in Russian language, also for 12 zodiac signs for the period from
13/04/2020 to 19/04/2020 that results in 24 Horoscope articles. The findings
elucidate the template adapted from the framework of move analysis by Swales
(it also was mentioned in the previous study) and found respectively five moves
forming a typical sequence in a horoscope. Objectively, this study sheds some
light on the process itself, how horoscope articles are systematically
constructed.
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