Linguistic Features to Compile a Successful Scientific Discourse: Have Tunisian Novice Researchers Ever Seen Such Features during their Educational Career

Abstract

This work predicted the difficulties of Tunisian novice researchers with scientific writing by studying, in terms of Functional Linguistics, two linguistic features used in the scientific discourse: syntactic structures and hedging. This work shows the deficiency of the official programs in terms of the required skills to compile a successful scientific discourse. Results showed that Tunisian novice researchers have never seen such features during their acquisition of English. Thus, they may face the hard challenge of packaging the high content of information in such an expository discourse to reach the informative and rhetorical purpose of their scientific products.

Detection and formal classification of certainty and its application to text mining of chains of scholarly statements

“…Scientific communication exhibits particular characteristics that differentiate it from normal communication, such as the syntactic structure, passive, extraposition or the use of hedging language [5] (discussed in more detail later). Moreover, increasingly specialized knowledge (and its associated language) is required to understand new specialty domains that arise on a regular basis.…”

“…Certainty could be defined in many ways. At its most extreme, it would be expressed as "is in no doubt" 5 . Certainty, in relation with scholarly articles and research fields, in this thesis is described as: "the perception of the reader regarding the certainty intended to be conveyed by the author".…”

“…[37] "βAPP accumulation is considered to play a major role in the pathogenesis of IBM and AD and is thought to precede other changes in both diseases" [132] "Those muscle fibers, widely prevalent in our one case of hereditary IBM, may represent early changes of IBM and therefore be analogous to the finding in AD brains where PAP accumulations in the "diffuse" Congored-negative plaques seem to represent early changes" [133] B "We have previously demonstrated that accumulation of AβPP epitopes precedes other abnormalities in IBM muscle fibers" [37] "Increased βAPP-mRNA and increased accumulation of βAPP epitopes appear to precede other abnormalities in IBM muscle fiber" [134] "One possibility is that one protein is accumulated first, due to excessive synthesis, e.g., excessive transcription of mRNA in the IBMs is known for beta APP" [135] C [18]. [136] [137] it is now established that Aβ/AβPP is also abnormally accumulated in muscle fibers of s-IBM patients, where they are considered to play an important pathogenetic role [4,5,6,7] [138] [40] However, in some abnormal muscle fibers in IBM, the accumulation of βAPP appears to extend outside the muscle fiber boundary. This may have been attributable to a fragility of the fiber's surface membrane, which could have been transiently broken.…”