Stance and engagement in pure mathematics research articles: Linking discourse features to disciplinary practices

Disciplinary and paradigmatic influences on interactional metadiscourse in research articles

“…They typically occur within parentheses or between dashes to engage readers in an interpersonal dialogue (e.g., the policy initiative -a misguided effort, in my opinion -gave rise to..). As revealed by previous research (e.g., Hyland, 2001aHyland, , 2005bMcGrath & Kuteeva, 2012), the strategic use of engagement markers in RAs can enhance rhetorical persuasiveness by engaging readers in the active construction of knowledge.…”

Exploring nominalization in scientific textbooks: A cross-disciplinary study of hard and soft sciences

“…Various disciplines in the natural sciences, technology, social sciences, and humanities all have their specific, conventionalized ways of describing ideas, knowledge, methods, results, and interpretations (e.g., Basturkmen, 2011;Hawes & Thomas, 2012;Hyland, 2007;McGrath & Kuteeva, 2012;Parodi, 2010). This discipline-specificity, which stresses that "disciplines and professions are largely created and maintained through the distinctive ways" and that "members jointly construct a view of the world through their discourses" (Hyland, 2006b: 114), makes it necessary to go beyond the generalized view of academic writing and to pin down specific characteristics of the scientific discourse in each of these disciplines.…”

Authorial Stance in Thai Students’ Doctoral Dissertation

“…For example, hedging and boosters were used to protect authors from any criticism and to indicate a degree of confidence (Hu & Cao, 2011;Serholt, 2012;Vázquez & Giner, 2009), attitudinal markers were used to express authors' viewpoints and evaluations (Ahmad & Mehrjooseresht, 2012), and self-mentions were used to explicitly promote authors as reliable members of the field or to establish a relationship with readers (Dueñas, 2007;Hyland, 2003Hyland, , 2008Silver, 2003;Zareva, 2013). Moreover, some studies demonstrated that establishing the author's credibility is a noticeable function of all stance types (Ahmad & Mehrjooseresht, 2012;Dueñas, 2007;Hu & Cao, 2011;Hyland, 2003;McGrath & Kuteeva, 2012;Serholt, 2012). students, especially Thais, utilize stance devices in their research.…”

“…Within the realm of academic writing there are several types of stance devices and each type performs different functions such as hedging, boosters, attitudinal markers and self-mentions. Several studies were conducted to explore various types of stance using a corpus-based approach (Reilly et al, 2005;Biber, 2006;Hyland, 2008c;McGrath & Kuteeva, 2012), while some examined a particular type and function of stance. The results reveal that not only have stance devices been used to reach the requirements of the academic community but have also been used for other purposes.…”