Attitude markers in business management research articles: a cross‐cultural corpus‐driven approach

Abstract

The expression of attitudinal meaning is negotiated in research articles (RAs) on the basis of shared disciplinary values. The aim of this paper is to analyse the role of the broader cultural context in the expression of attitudinal values, trying to ascertain to what extent language/culture values may be overridden by disciplinary ones. Thus, the paper explores attitude markers in a corpus of RAs from Business Management in two different sociocultural contexts: international American and local Spanish. Overall, results indicate a similar frequency of use and tendencies in the rhetorical purposes of attitude markers in the two sub‐corpora. It could be concluded that a common set of disciplinary values is shared by scholars from these two cultural contexts in this field when publishing their RAs. La expresión de contenidos atitudinales se negocia en los artículos de investigación con arreglo a valores disciplinares compartidos por sus miembros. El objetivo de este artículo es analizar el papel del contexto cultural más amplio en el que se enmarca el artículo de investigación publicado en la expresión de valores atitudinales, con el propósito de discernir hasta qué punto los valores disciplinares pueden suprimir aquellos de índole lingüística/cultural. Así, el artículo analiza el uso de marcadores atitudinales en un corpus de artículos de investigación en Dirección y Organización de Empresas en dos contextos socio culturales diferentes: el norteamericano (internacional) y el español (local). En términos generales, los resultados indican una frecuencia de uso y tendencias en los propósitos retóricos de los marcadores atitudinales similares en los dos corpora. De estos resultados se infiere que existe un conjunto de valores disciplinares compartidos por ambos grupos de autores, pertenecientes a distintos ámbitos socioculturales, pero al mismo campo disciplinar, a la hora de publicar sus artículos de investigación.

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