Stance complement clauses controlled by verbs in academic research papers
This paper explores stance complement clauses in the genre of academic discourse, analysing stance complement clauses controlled by verbs in economics research articles written in English by non-native writers. Following Biber’s taxonomy (2006) of common lexico-grammatical features used for stance a...
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| description | This paper explores stance complement clauses in the genre of academic discourse, analysing stance complement clauses controlled by verbs in economics research articles written in English by non-native writers. Following Biber’s taxonomy (2006) of common lexico-grammatical features used for stance analyses, the results of the study show that epistemic verbs of certainty and likelihood are an important means of communicating knowledge in this genre and thus, form an inseparable part of academic research writing. Moreover, the study seeks to analyse the contrast between stance to-infinitives and stance that-clauses in the studied corpus. While stance that-clauses relate mainly to the category of certainty; on the contrary, stance to-infinitive clauses are consciously or subconsciously chosen to lessen the risk of a face-threatening act and typically refer to writers’ sensory experience (e.g. verbs such as seem, appear, etc.). The findings suggest that research papers from the field of economics demonstrate a clear preference for factive verbs over non-factive verbs. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0162201c536f499db901e8694babd2cd2024-04-02T06:10:34ZengConstantine the Philosopher University in NitraTopics in Linguistics2199-65042021-06-01221162610.2478/topling-2021-0002Stance complement clauses controlled by verbs in academic research papersKozáčiková Zuzana0Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, SlovakiaThis paper explores stance complement clauses in the genre of academic discourse, analysing stance complement clauses controlled by verbs in economics research articles written in English by non-native writers. Following Biber’s taxonomy (2006) of common lexico-grammatical features used for stance analyses, the results of the study show that epistemic verbs of certainty and likelihood are an important means of communicating knowledge in this genre and thus, form an inseparable part of academic research writing. Moreover, the study seeks to analyse the contrast between stance to-infinitives and stance that-clauses in the studied corpus. While stance that-clauses relate mainly to the category of certainty; on the contrary, stance to-infinitive clauses are consciously or subconsciously chosen to lessen the risk of a face-threatening act and typically refer to writers’ sensory experience (e.g. verbs such as seem, appear, etc.). The findings suggest that research papers from the field of economics demonstrate a clear preference for factive verbs over non-factive verbs.https://doi.org/10.2478/topling-2021-0002academic discourseresearch papersstance complement clauses controlled by verbsstance that-clausesstance to-infinitive clausesepistemic verbs |
| spellingShingle | Kozáčiková Zuzana Stance complement clauses controlled by verbs in academic research papers Topics in Linguistics academic discourse research papers stance complement clauses controlled by verbs stance that-clauses stance to-infinitive clauses epistemic verbs |
| title | Stance complement clauses controlled by verbs in academic research papers |
| title_full | Stance complement clauses controlled by verbs in academic research papers |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Stance complement clauses controlled by verbs in academic research papers |
| title_short | Stance complement clauses controlled by verbs in academic research papers |
| title_sort | stance complement clauses controlled by verbs in academic research papers |
| topic | academic discourse research papers stance complement clauses controlled by verbs stance that-clauses stance to-infinitive clauses epistemic verbs |
| url | https://doi.org/10.2478/topling-2021-0002 |
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