Linguistic Features of Evaluative Stance: Findings From Research Article Discussions

Abstract

Recent research (e.g., Hunston 2007;Hyland 1999;2008; has marked and evidenced the importance of effectively using linguistic features as a major component in expressing stances and as an essential part of the shared knowledge of a professional discourse community by giving space for negotiation and evaluation of viewpoints. The present study is concerned with the use of the expression of evaluation in academic discourse, focusing on some communicative strategies for indicating stance. With the corpus-based approach, research articles on applied linguistics and language teaching selected from top-ten journals were systematically complied and analyzed. The results revealed that professional and experienced writers variably exploit stance markers including epistemic modality, extraposed ‗it', communication verbs, and personal pronouns in terms of different functional types of evaluative stance. The findings highlight the importance of understanding the use of stance devices in academics, facilitating a better understanding of novice readers and writers when writing academic productions. Pedagogically, the description of this study contributes to ways to improvement of practical language and academic writing courses to suit the discourse community.Keywords: Corpus, evaluative stance, discourse, academic research FITUR-FITUR KEBAHASAAN DARI SUDUT PANDANG EVALUATIF: TEMUAN DARI DISKUSI ARTIKEL PENELITIANAbstrak: Penelitian terbaru (seperti, Hunston, 2007;Hyland, 1999;2008;) telah menunjukkan dan membuktikan pentingnya penggunaan fitur-fitur kebahasaan secara efektif sebagai komponen utama dalam mengekspresikan sudut pandang dan sebagai bagian penting dalam berbagi pengetahuan dari sebuah komunitas wacana profesional dengan memberikan ruang negosiasi dan evaluasi terhadap cara pandang. Penelitian ini berkaitan dengan penggunaan pernyataan-pernyataan evaluasi dalam wacana akademik, yang fokus pada beberapa strategi komunikatif untuk menunjukkan sudut pandang. Dengan menggunakan pendekatan berbasis korpus, artikel-artikel jurnal dalam bidang linguistik terapan dan pengajaran bahasa yang disaring dari sepuluh jurnal terbaik dikumpulkan dan dianalisis secara sistematis. Hasil penelitian ini mengungkap bahwa penulis yang profesional dan berpengalaman banyak menggunakan penanda sudut pandang, seperti modalitas epistemik, ekstraposisi "it", kata kerja komunikasi, dan kata ganti benda personal secara bervariasi dalam hal jenis-jenis sudut pandang evaluatif fungsional yang berbeda-beda. Temuan dalam penelitian ini menyoroti pentingnya pemahaman terhadap penggunaan perangkat penanda sudut pandang di bidang akademis, untuk memfasilitasi pemahaman yang lebih baik bagi para pembaca dan penulis pemula ketika menulis karya bersifat akademis. Secara pedagogis, paparan dalam penelitian ini memberikan kontribusi terhadap perkembangan bahasa praktis dan mata kuliah menulis akademis yang sesuai dalam komunitas wacana tertentu.

The Incomplete Linguistic Features and Schematic Structure in EFL University Students’ Narrative Texts

“…Another research which is in line with the findings of this study conducted by Khamkein (2014) conducted a study entitled "Linguistic Features of Evaluative Stance: Findings from Research Article Discussions". He asserted that a better understanding of how scholars use linguistic features or lexical-grammatical features to convey attitudinal or evaluative meanings can enable novice and new scholars and advanced students to enhance their writing skills.…”

“…There are a number of previous studies focusing on the analysis of lexicogrammatical features and narrative text such as Khamkein (2014), Kurniawan (2016), and Ghani et al (2017). Khamkein (2014) conducted a study entitled "Linguistic Features of Evaluative Stance: Findings from Research Article Discussions". That study deals with the use of the expression of evaluation in academic discourse, focusing on some communicative strategies for indicating stance.…”

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