Stance phraseology in academic discourse: cross-disciplinary variation in authors’ presence
This study aims to investigate the stance phrases used by agricultural science and economics scholars to establish their identity and authority in academic discourse. Adopting a corpus-driven approach, this study first retrieved 2- to 5- grams from two self-built corpora consisting of agriculture an...
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| description | This study aims to investigate the stance phrases used by agricultural science and economics scholars to establish their identity and authority in academic discourse. Adopting a corpus-driven approach, this study first retrieved 2- to 5- grams from two self-built corpora consisting of agriculture and economics research articles and then classified them functionally by following the three metafunctions in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). Statistical comparisons show that agriculture researchers use cognitive, attitude, and hedging phrases more frequently, while the economics corpus contains significantly more evidentiality phrases. This paper contributes to the categorization of stance phrases by synthesizing and refining existing stance classifications and incorporating the reason-oriented dimension. The findings can enrich our understanding of disciplinary variation in academic discourse, and can inform academic writing pedagogy with respect to curriculum design and materials development. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1132ae698c374e0c8e60abbb745d597c2022-12-22T03:29:11ZengAsociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines EspecíficosIbérica1139-72412340-27842020-07-0139191214Stance phraseology in academic discourse: cross-disciplinary variation in authors’ presenceJihua Dong0Louisa Buckingham 1Shandong University (China) The University of Auckland (New Zealand)This study aims to investigate the stance phrases used by agricultural science and economics scholars to establish their identity and authority in academic discourse. Adopting a corpus-driven approach, this study first retrieved 2- to 5- grams from two self-built corpora consisting of agriculture and economics research articles and then classified them functionally by following the three metafunctions in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). Statistical comparisons show that agriculture researchers use cognitive, attitude, and hedging phrases more frequently, while the economics corpus contains significantly more evidentiality phrases. This paper contributes to the categorization of stance phrases by synthesizing and refining existing stance classifications and incorporating the reason-oriented dimension. The findings can enrich our understanding of disciplinary variation in academic discourse, and can inform academic writing pedagogy with respect to curriculum design and materials development.http://www.aelfe.org/documents/39_08_IBERICA.pdfclassification frameworkcorpus-driven approachdisciplinary variationcognitive stancenatural language toolki |
| spellingShingle | Jihua Dong Louisa Buckingham Stance phraseology in academic discourse: cross-disciplinary variation in authors’ presence Ibérica classification framework corpus-driven approach disciplinary variation cognitive stance natural language toolki |
| title | Stance phraseology in academic discourse: cross-disciplinary variation in authors’ presence |
| title_full | Stance phraseology in academic discourse: cross-disciplinary variation in authors’ presence |
| title_fullStr | Stance phraseology in academic discourse: cross-disciplinary variation in authors’ presence |
| title_full_unstemmed | Stance phraseology in academic discourse: cross-disciplinary variation in authors’ presence |
| title_short | Stance phraseology in academic discourse: cross-disciplinary variation in authors’ presence |
| title_sort | stance phraseology in academic discourse cross disciplinary variation in authors presence |
| topic | classification framework corpus-driven approach disciplinary variation cognitive stance natural language toolki |
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