Publication details
On expressing stance in academic discourse: Self-sourced reporting clauses
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| Year of publication | 2009 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | PASE papers 2008 |
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| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | coherence - stance - reporting verbs - self-reference - academic discourse |
| Description | This investigation tries to contribute to the study of the expression of stance in academic English on the basis of an analysis of the choice of self-reference items and reporting verbs in self-sourced reports in unpublished undergraduate and graduate theses. The study is applied to a corpus of theses in the field of methodology and linguistics written by Czech students of English language and literature; accordingly an additional aim of this investigation is to compare the expression of stance in non-native "apprentice" writers academic work to the standard in published research articles. |
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