Disciplinary Recognized Self-Presence: Self-Mention Used With Hedges and Boosters in PhD Students’ Research Writing

Wang, Jingjing; Zeng, Liangjing

doi:10.1177/21582440211005454

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“…In Ex 12, the MS participant tends to be more authoritative in his status update using the obligation marker "must" which emphasizes the expression of authority by a person with power. This is in line with the study of Wang & Zeng (2021), who conclude that participants use first-person pronouns in collocation with other lexical devices, mainly hedges or boosters. They suggest that this can fine-tune the role of authorial commitment in a text.…”

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confidence: 91%

دراسة تأثير الاختلاف في النوع والعمر على التعبير عن الموقف على موقع التواصل الاجتماعي فيسبوک: دراسة قائمه على المتن اللغوي

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يوسف²,

توفيق³

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One of the most popular social networking sites nowadays is Facebook where millions of users have found a suitable platform to sketch their personal experiences; present their own perspectives, comments, and reflections; and express their own feelings. This study investigates the use of certain features of authorial stance, namely hedges, boosters, attitude markers, and self-mention, in 1500 Facebook status update posts written in English by 200 Egyptian male and female (M/F) students as well as 200 Egyptian M/F academic staff. The theoretical and analytical framework for this study is Hyland"s (2005a, b) Model of Interaction which was originally proposed for academic texts. The present study involves extending the application of this model to online Facebook interactions. The freeware corpus analytic toolkit AntConc (version 3.5.8) is used for concordancing and posts" analysis. The results revealed only marginal age differences regarding the frequency of using boosters and attitude markers, where students topped academic staff albeit with a narrow margin. Gender differences were observed in the higher use of self-mention by the female groups as opposed to the male groups, and in gender-related preferences of certain categories of hedging and certain markers of attitude.

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Section: ‫بحٕث‬ ‫يجهة‬supporting

confidence: 91%

دراسة تأثير الاختلاف في النوع والعمر على التعبير عن الموقف على موقع التواصل الاجتماعي فيسبوک: دراسة قائمه على المتن اللغوي

عياد¹,

يوسف²,

توفيق³

et al. 2021

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“…In fact, it was also found that the discussion section of the thesis had a substance that deviated from the research results (J. Wang & Zeng, 2021) . This fact can happen because many students actually do not understand correctly the nature of the discussion section of the thesis.…”

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Modal Qualifiers as Booster in Argumentative Writing of the Thesis Discussion Section (Modal Qualifiers Sebagai Booster Dalam Tulisan Argumentatif Pada Bagian Pembahasan Tesis)

Setyaningsih

2023

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The importance of using modal qualifiers as a component of argumentative writing in the discussion section of student theses has not been fully realized by students. In fact, this component greatly determines the level of strength of the argument as a vehicle for conveying scientific truth. Scientific truth can be tested through the strength of the argument that appears in the selection of the types of modal qualifiers that accompany the position statement. This study aims to describe the manifestation of the form and function of the modal qualifier as a booster in argumentative writing for thesis discussion. The research data is in the form of excerpts of claims which contain boosters from the thesis discussion section of students of the Indonesian Language Education Masters Program at Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta. Data was collected by listening method with note-taking technique. Furthermore, the stages of classification and typification of data are carried out. The analytical method used in this study is the distributional analysis method and the content analysis method. The results of this study are the following forms of capital qualifiers as boosters: (1) definitely, (2) necessary, (3) must, (4) certainly, and variations in form. This study also found seven booster functions as follows: (1) affirming by showing confidence, (2) affirming by giving recommendations, (3) affirming by confirming something, (4) affirming by confirmation of clarity, (5) affirming by inferring purpose, (6) affirming of intent by ensuring, (7) affirming by suggesting something.

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“…He also emphasizes that arguments in soft knowledge domains are different from those of hard science domains due to the nature of these sciences. As Wang and Zeng (2021) contend, the use of first-person pronouns varies based on the discursive rules of each discipline. In a recent study, Hyland and Jiang (2018) found that self-mention pronouns have increased dramatically in sociology, biology, and electrical engineering over the last 50 years but have decreased in applied linguistics.…”

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Analysing authorial identity construction in the review article genre in Applied Linguistics

Azar

Hashim

2022

SiELE

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Authorial identity construction is one of many professional rhetorical strategies employed by authors in academic review genres. Authors usually create a persona to represent themselves, their seniority in the field, and the community to which they belong. The author’s visibility is made possible through several rhetorical devices. Perhaps the most remarkable way of such authorial identity construction in the review article genre is self-mentions. The aims of this research are (1) to find out what types of self-mention are frequently used in review articles, (2) to determine the frequency of use and distribution of self-mentions in the review articles, and (3) to investigate the rhetorical function of self-mentions in the different analytical sections of the review articles. The data, drawn from a randomly selected corpus of thirty-two review articles, were analysed using WordSmith Tools Version 6. The findings indicated that first-person plural pronouns were more frequently used than singular pronouns in the whole corpus except in the two review texts. It was also observed that the frequency of occurrence for the exclusive and inclusive pronouns was very close to each other. Most importantly, the inclusive pronouns were used not only as a politeness strategy to appreciate the readers and keep the writers’ claims balanced but also as a persuasive tool to seek the readers’ agreement in the evaluation of research developments. This study revealed that authors construct various professional personas as a rhetorical strategy to carve their authorial identity and credibility in the review article genre. The findings of this study have pedagogical implications in the field of academic writing in applied linguistics as well as other disciplines.

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Disciplinary Recognized Self-Presence: Self-Mention Used With Hedges and Boosters in PhD Students’ Research Writing

Cited by 11 publications

References 45 publications

دراسة تأثير الاختلاف في النوع والعمر على التعبير عن الموقف على موقع التواصل الاجتماعي فيسبوک: دراسة قائمه على المتن اللغوي

دراسة تأثير الاختلاف في النوع والعمر على التعبير عن الموقف على موقع التواصل الاجتماعي فيسبوک: دراسة قائمه على المتن اللغوي

Modal Qualifiers as Booster in Argumentative Writing of the Thesis Discussion Section (Modal Qualifiers Sebagai Booster Dalam Tulisan Argumentatif Pada Bagian Pembahasan Tesis)

Analysing authorial identity construction in the review article genre in Applied Linguistics

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