Lexical verbs of epistemic modality in academic written English: disciplinary variation

• Autorzy: Tatiana Szczygłowska

Abstrakty

EN

The article examines the disciplinary preferences of medical and psychology writers of research articles (RAs) in the use of epistemic lexical verbs (ELVs), regarding their frequency, prominence, distribution across the RA sections, and recurrent phraseology. The results show that disciplinary affiliation affects these phenomena, as more ELVs are found in psychology than in medicine. Both groups prefer speculative judgements and quotative evidence and most frequently use ELVs in Discussions. Yet, psychology authors are more balanced in their preferences and rely on a wider selection of frequent ELVs which are often combined with self-mention. Medical authors are more inclined towards deductive ELVs. Disciplinary differences are also observed in the choice of the specific ELVs, their frequency distributions and phraseology in the distinct RA sections.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

academic writing; research article; disciplinary variation; epistemic lexical verbs

• Wydawca: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Czasopismo: Linguistica Silesiana
• Rocznik: 2022
• Tom: 43
• Strony: 91-111

Daty

wydano

2022

Twórcy

autor

Tatiana Szczygłowska

Identyfikatory

Biblioteka Nauki

2119973