Una cita con la cita. The Cross-cultural Values of Citations in Postgraduate Research Works

Citation processes are shaped in a textual context that characterizes the academic discourse within each genre, such as disciplinary community or cultural framework

The interplay between the citation processes and context in turn generates new knowledge between the writer and reader. In this presentation, I discuss the cross-cultural differences in citations used in their research by post- graduate students writing in Spanish and in English.