Stance markers in forestry research articles: Indicators of authoritative voice
Zahra Nasirizadeh,
Shamala Paramasivam
Abstract:Stance markers, serving as the primary discursive category of interactional metadiscourse, function as a reliable measure for evaluating how authors of research articles authoritatively foreground their research within disciplinary communities. Stance research primarily focuses on how authors or speakers adjust the certainty level of their assertions, both epistemically and emotionally. This study examined the occurrences of stance markers in each rhetorical move within the Introduction, Methods, Results and D… Show more
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