Epistemic modals in early Modern English history texts. Analysis of gender variation

Álvarez-Gil, Francisco J.

doi:10.4995/rlyla.2018.7801

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“…Borrowing Zhang's (2015) notion of elasticity and related categories, Quintana-Toledo (2017) explores vague language in another subcorpus of the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing, namely, the Corpus of History English Texts. Finally, hedging may well be the most extensively researched pragmatic function of vagueness from a diachronic perspective, notably in the works by Salager-Meyer, Defives & Hamelinsck (1996), Skelton (1997), Salager-Meyer & Defives (1998, Alonso-Almeida (2012), Puente-Castelo & Mónaco (2016), Álvarez-Gil (2018a2018b), Álvarez-Gil & García-Alonso (2019 or Moskowich & Crespo (2019).…”

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Elastic language in scientific writing: Evidence from the Corpus of English Life of Sciences Texts

Álvarez-Gil¹,

Quintana-Toledo²

2022

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This paper sets out to explore the expression of vagueness in eighteenth and nineteenth century scientific writing, specifically in the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts. Following Zhang’s (2015) pragmatic-oriented approach to vague language, vague expressions are viewed through the lenses of elasticity. This notion applies to the strategic use of vagueness insofar as it provides a space for the negotiation of pragmatic meanings in writer-reader interaction. The exploration of elastic language involves four lexical categories: (i) approximate stretchers, i.e., approximators and vague quantifiers, (ii) general stretchers, i.e., general terms, placeholders and vague category markers, (iii) scalar stretchers, i.e., intensifiers and softeners, and (iv) epistemic stretchers. The Coruña Corpus Tool has been used to elicit data, but classification and contextualised interpretations have necessarily relied on manual analysis. Findings reveal that elastic language fulfils a variety of relational functions in scientific writing, including making generalisations when the information is either not available or relevant for the purposes of communication, marking shared knowledge and group membership, or self-protection.

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Elastic language in scientific writing: Evidence from the Corpus of English Life of Sciences Texts

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Quintana-Toledo²

2022

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“…Aunque todavía queda mucho por investigar en textos académicos desde una perspectiva diacrónica, hay algunos estudios previos sobre elementos de posicionamiento realizados en el ámbito de la pragmática histórica (cf. Gray, Biber y Hiltunen 2011; Moskowich and Crespo 2014;Alonso-Almeida 2015;Álvarez-Gil, 2017Álvarez-Gil, , 2018Álvarez-Gil, , 2019. Siguiendo esta tradición, nos centramos en la expresión I think, siguiendo el trabajo de van der Auwera y Plungian (1998) para la descripción de la modalidad y los tipos modales.…”

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Analysis of the linguistic expression I think in a corpus of late Modern English scientific texts

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Alonso²

2019

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The present paper deals with the relationship between modality and evidentiality, focussed specifically on the use of the expression I think in combination with other modal devices, as well as the possible pragmatic effects observed in text samples obtained from the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing and whether the variable of discipline might have some effect on the functions the expression represents in these texts. Even if much research is still to be done in academic texts from a diachronic perspective, there are some previous studies on stance devices carried out within the arena of historical pragmatics (cf.

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“…El estudio de los verbos modales, y de la modalidad en general, en textos de especialidad no es realmente novedosa, como se demuestra en la literatura existente (cf. Giltrow 2005;Efstathiadi 2010;Cheng & Cheng 2014;Alonso-Almeida 2014;Ge 2015;Carrió-Pastor 2017;Álvarez-Gil 2018;Carrió-Pastor 2020a). La novedad de este estudio radica principalmente en la selección de dos secciones fundamentales del artículo de investigación para la recepción y el impacto de este como aportación científica, como son la introducción y la conclusión, y mi interés por los textos turísticos.…”

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Los verbos modales en las introducciones y en las conclusiones de los artículos científicos de turismo

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The research article in the field of tourism studies has not been sufficiently studied, despite being a discipline strongly connected with a sector of economic growth for many countries. Other textual genres related to the tourism register such as the summary, brochures and web pages in the tourism register, the latter with great relevance for their clear social and economic impact of tourism studies, have enjoyed more scholarly attention. Scientific research in tourism, however, provides organisations, whether public or private, with relevant information for the improvement of the activity, which translates into recommendations that are often included in the conclusions of these studies. It is held, therefore, that there is a direct relationship between the development of the sector and empirical research, which, in turn, shows the interest in academic publications in leading journal. For this reason, this paper includes a formal characterisation of the genre into sections. This study is supplemented with a description of the recurrent lexicalgrammatical structures in each of the sections of the scientific article and the lexical and syntactic variables that characterise the text within the scientific register, both in terms of the complexity and the level of elaboration exhibited in the language used in these works. These structures are intended to signal the authors' perspective, among other aspects.

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Epistemic modals in early Modern English history texts. Analysis of gender variation

Cited by 3 publications

References 25 publications

Elastic language in scientific writing: Evidence from the Corpus of English Life of Sciences Texts

Elastic language in scientific writing: Evidence from the Corpus of English Life of Sciences Texts

Analysis of the linguistic expression I think in a corpus of late Modern English scientific texts

Los verbos modales en las introducciones y en las conclusiones de los artículos científicos de turismo

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