‘Nowhere has anyone attempted … In this article I aim to do just that’

Harwood, Nigel

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2005.01.012

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“…Both the nature and degree of authorial representation are closely connected with the requirements of specific disciplines: in the natural sciences, the author's presence tends to be minimal, while in the humanities and social sciences, authors mark their presence more explicitly. Authorial presence may be indicated by a variety of devices, such as first person pronouns (cf., e.g., Hyland 2001;Harwood 2005;Fløttum et al 2006aFløttum et al , 2006bÄdel 2014). Less directly, it may be signalled by adverbial markers of epistemic modality.…”

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confidence: 99%

Adverbial Markers of Epistemic Modality Across Disciplinary Discourses: A Contrastive Study of Research Articles in Six Academic Disciplines

Rozumko

2017

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia

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Epistemic adverbs, like other markers of epistemic modality, are concerned with the speaker's assessment of the truth value of the proposition. In other words, they indicate that the speaker considers certain situations as possible, impossible, probable, certain, or uncertain. At the same time, they signal the author's presence in the text, and invite the reader to make his/her own conclusions and interpretations. The use of modal markers has been demonstrated to differ across academic disciplines, but the specific differences concerning the use of epistemic adverbs have not been studied systematically. This paper investigates the use of epistemic adverbs in research articles representing six disciplines belonging to three different branches of science: the humanities (linguistics and literary studies), the social sciences (law and sociology), and the natural sciences (physics and medicine), with the aim of establishing discipline-specific tendencies in their use. The study is based on a corpus of 160 research articles compiled by the author. It begins with an attempt at delimiting the category of epistemic adverbs in English. After that, a list of the most frequent epistemic adverbs in the subcorpora of all the disciplines is established and discussed. The study demonstrates that frequent use of epistemic adverbs is largely a property of research articles in the humanities and social sciences. Medical and physics research articles use them significantly less often. The most frequent epistemic adverbs in the research articles under analysis include indeed,

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adverbial Markers of Epistemic Modality Across Disciplinary Discourses: A Contrastive Study of Research Articles in Six Academic Disciplines

Rozumko

2017

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia

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“…Examples from our examined texts show how the writers strategically use exclusive we to refer to themselves or inclusive we to refer to either writers and readers or the discipline as a whole for different communicative purposes (Kuo, 1999). Exclusive we in our corpora were found to fulfill different rhetorical functions (Harwood, 2005a) The above-mentioned discourse functions reveal where and how writers use exclusive we to signal their presence as researchers in the paper; they also characterize specific discourse contexts where writers want to emphasize their role in research. In fact, exclusive we is used where writers want to stress a personal contribution to their field of research.…”

Section: Subjective Plural Pronoun We: Exclusive Vs Inclusive Wementioning

confidence: 82%

“…A rich array of studies has probed into writers' self-representation in academic arena (e.g. Ivanic, 1998;Tang & John, 1999;Kuo, 1999;Hyland, 2001;Harwood, 2005aHarwood, , 2005b. Although researchers have come to recognize that writers' projection of self is pivotal for both native and non-native writers (Hyland, 2002a;Harwood, 2005c;Ivanic & Camps, 2001), very few cross-cultural studies have been carried out to examine authorial self-representation and even no such studies on the use of writers' self-representation by Iranian and American academics have been conducted in computer engineering.…”

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confidence: 99%

Writers’ self-representation in academic writing: The case of computer engineering research articles by English versus Iranian writers

Kuhi¹,

Tofigh²,

Babaie³

2012

IJRSLL

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It is widely acknowledged that academic writing is not just about communicating an ideational content; it is also about the representation of self. The purpose of this study was to investigate the tendency of Iranian and American writers for self-representation which is realized by means of writers' explicit (first person self-references) and implicit self (imperative forms and attitude markers) in computer engineering research articles. In this study, 40 published research articles written in English by Iranian and American academics were analyzed to determine the distribution of first person pronouns, imperative forms and attitude markers. We have also examined the semantic references of plural pronoun 'we' as inclusive or exclusive according to their functions. The results indicated that both groups presented themselves both explicitly and implicitly. In addition, in the light of the results, it is evident that Iranian writers utilized explicit 'self' more than American writers did, whereas American writers made use of implicit 'self' more than Iranian scholars.

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“…Most notable are studies by Wang and Soergel (1998) and Harwood (2005) who attempted to identify dimensions and categories of source use decisions by interviewing authors from Agricultural Sciences, and Computer Science and Sociology respectively. In the first study, the motivation was to explore the reasons participants gave in interviews regarding the whole process of conducting research, including writing and publication.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rhetorical Patterns in Citations across Disciplines and Levels of Participation

Karatsolis¹

2016

Journal of Writing Research

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‘Nowhere has anyone attempted … In this article I aim to do just that’

Cited by 159 publications

References 23 publications

Adverbial Markers of Epistemic Modality Across Disciplinary Discourses: A Contrastive Study of Research Articles in Six Academic Disciplines

Adverbial Markers of Epistemic Modality Across Disciplinary Discourses: A Contrastive Study of Research Articles in Six Academic Disciplines

Writers’ self-representation in academic writing: The case of computer engineering research articles by English versus Iranian writers

Rhetorical Patterns in Citations across Disciplines and Levels of Participation

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