Contributing to the academic conversation: A study of new knowledge claims in economics and linguistics

Dahl, Trine

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2007.11.006

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“…(EG-07/04/intro, p.3) (6) To check the robustness of our findings against these concerns, we have also constructed our measures with the World Trade dataset which….…”

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Playing with Politeness in Economic Journals: The Strategy Used by Authors to Bring about Solidarity and Respect

Hamuddin¹,

Dahler²,

Wardi³

2017

Preprint

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Brown and Levinson (1978) alongside the application onto scientific writing by Myers (1989) and persuasive tactics proposed by Mulholland (1994) . This study calculated in total of 591 times the authors employ the tactics in order to maintain solidarity and respect in their articles. Positive politeness strategies seems to be the highest frequency (258 times) than the other 3 strategies. The data also reveals that EG authors have used 8 tactics in this strategy and it seems the 3 most used tactics was; by using in-group identity marker (62 times), using in-group pronoun (59 times), and by informing readers about their research (40 times). This study clearly sees that the strategies and tactics employ by the authors in EG journal has a purposes to bring about solidarity and respect used by EGauthors in their articles somehow used to reach the demands of the academic discourse community that expects scientific language to be objective and formal however not losing its intimacy with the economic community members and this is seems in line with the nature of positive politeness strategies.

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“…(EG-07/04/intro, p.3) (6) To check the robustness of our findings against these concerns, we have also constructed our measures with the World Trade dataset which….…”

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“…Noor, 2000), research articles (Dahl, 2008), blogs (Thayalan, 2011), Economic Journals (Hamuddin: 2012).…”

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Playing with Politeness in Economic Journals: The Strategy Used by Authors to Bring about Solidarity and Respect

Hamuddin¹,

Dahler²,

Wardi³

2017

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“…Dahl (2008) reported that scholars in the fields of linguistics and economics present their new claims in the Introduction section of their research articles (RA) with a high degree of assertiveness as a rhetorical strategy to win the publishing competition. In short, hedges represent a major contribution to the social negotiation of knowledge and writers' efforts to persuade readers and to gain community acceptance for their work (Hyland, 2000).…”

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“…In short, hedges represent a major contribution to the social negotiation of knowledge and writers' efforts to persuade readers and to gain community acceptance for their work (Hyland, 2000). Studies designed to examine the use of hedges in RAs have largely examined English texts from different disciplinary fields (Dahl, 2008;Silver, 2003).…”

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Corpus Research on Hedges in Linguistics and Efl Journal Papers

Wang

Tatiana

2016

IJE

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There has been a considerable increase in the number of studies on hedges that can help authors to reduce commitment and negotiate the meaning between the reader and the writer. This study examines hedging devices based on corpus-based analysis of 750 research articles (4,831,500 running words) extracted from 15 leading journals in the areas of linguistics and EFL. Wordsmith Tools 5.0 was used for identifying hedging devices. The frameworks of both Hyland (1998aHyland ( , 2005 and Varttala (1998) were integrated to identify the functions of hedging devices. The results reveal that modal auxiliary hedging (44.9%) is found more than the other types, while the noun category is the least used (2.17%). However, the use of different syntactic features (personal or impersonal) when combined with epistemic lexical terms appeared to influence different interpretations of lexical hedging mainly regarding the politeness strategy. Additionally, it is the authors' responsibility to hedge their own propositions. Learners should know the rules of hedges to distinguish real facts and findings from researchers' biased views and conclusions, and to use these markers accurately in their own works. The current study is practical for EFL learners as it discusses many types of hedges for familiarizing students with the appropriate use of hedging.

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“…Studies designed to examine the use of hedges in research articles have largely examined English texts from different disciplinary fields (e.g. Abdi, 2002;Dahl, 2008;Gillaerts and Van de Velde, 2010;Hyland, 1996b;Hyland, 1998a;Hyland, 1998b;Kuhi and Behnam, 2011). Other studies compared how such interpersonal features were used in English and in other languages, such as Persian (Zarei and Mansoori, 2011), French and Norwegian (Marshman, 2008;Vold, 2006b), Spanish (Martín-Martín, 2008), Arabic (Sultan, 2011), German (Kreutz and Harres, 1997), and Bulgarian (Vassileva, 2001).…”

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Revisiting the Effects of Sociocultural Context and Disciplines on the Use of Hedges in Research Articles

Sanjaya

2015

Indonesian J. Appl. Linguist

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This study examines whether sociocultural context and discipline substantially affect usage of hedges in research articles. The corpus for the study consists of 104 research articles from two languages (English and Indonesian) with the disciplines of applied linguistics and chemistry. The analysis reveals that there is a statistically significant effect of sociocultural context in research articles from applied linguistics only. Interaction effect between sociocultural context and discipline is also observed. However, there is no statistically significant effect of the disciplines. It seems that both factors are not the major factors influencing usage of hedges in research articles. One intrapersonal factor, namely the cultural models embraced by the individual authors in regard to hedging usage, is proposed as a significant factor which determines the degree of uncertainty of research articles.

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Contributing to the academic conversation: A study of new knowledge claims in economics and linguistics

Cited by 31 publications

References 6 publications

Playing with Politeness in Economic Journals: The Strategy Used by Authors to Bring about Solidarity and Respect

Playing with Politeness in Economic Journals: The Strategy Used by Authors to Bring about Solidarity and Respect

Corpus Research on Hedges in Linguistics and Efl Journal Papers

Revisiting the Effects of Sociocultural Context and Disciplines on the Use of Hedges in Research Articles

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