'A Matter of Prolonged Field Work': Notes Towards a Modal Grammar of English1

Stubbs, Michael

doi:10.1093/applin/7.1.1

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“…It has indeed been studied from the points of view of language philosophy (Fine, 2005), semantics (mis., Boland, 2006;Coates, 1983;Leech, 2004;Lyons, 1977;Palmer, 2001;Perkins, 1983), and pragmatics (Klinge, 1993;Stubbs, 1986;Turnbull & Saxton, 1997). In general, modality, according to Lyons (1977: 452), is concerned with a speaker's "opinion or attitude towards the proposition that the sentence expresses or the situation that the proposition describes", whereas according to Huddleston & Pullum (2002: 173), it is concerned with "the speaker's attitude towards the factuality or actualization of the situation expressed by the rest of the clause".…”

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Hedging Through the Use of Modal Auxiliaries in English Academic Discourse

Hardjanto

2016

Jur, Hum

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As a communicative strategy, hedging plays a central role in academic writing. Numerous different linguistic forms can be used to express this strategy. This article attempts to investigate modal auxiliary verbs as the principal means of expressing hedging in English academic discourse. For this purpose, a corpus of 75 primary empirical research articles from economics, linguistics, medicine, natural sciences and engineering was analyzed quantitatively with the help of corpus linguistic method. The results revealed that modal auxiliaries were used most frequently in linguistics and economics and least frequently in engineering and natural sciences while their use in medicine came in between. This seems to suggest that there is noticeable disciplinary variation in the degree of hedging through the use of modal auxiliaries in English research articles. Modal auxiliaries tend to be more common in soft sciences than in hard sciences whereas their use in health sciences in comparison with soft and hard sciences does not seem to show any significant difference.

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Section: Modality and Modal Auxiliaries In Englishmentioning

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Hedging Through the Use of Modal Auxiliaries in English Academic Discourse

Hardjanto

2016

Jur, Hum

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“…Some studies were concerned with the use of hedges in general language texts (e.g. McKinley 1983, Powell 1985, Stubb 1986), others involved with the frequency of these linguistic devices in academic writing (e.g. Kubui 1988 in medical research papers, Rounds 1981Rounds , 1982 in social sciences, & Myers 1988 in a corpus of molecular genetics), and others discussed the problem from a contrastive rhetoric point of view (e.g.…”

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A Cross-cultural Analysis of the Use of Hedging Devices in Scientific Research Articles

Rezanejad

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Mosalli

2015

JLTR

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Abstract-Hedging is a significant aspect of academic writing and it is an important resource for L2 writers (Hyland, 1994). Hence, this study set out to compare the frequency of hedges employed in different sections of research papers written by non-native English speaking authors (NNESA) and native English speaking authors (NESA). To this end, 40 research articles written by the two groups of authors was analyzed based on the taxonomy of hedges proposed by Salagar-Meyer (1994). The results showed that generally NESA utilized more hedges compared to NNESA and there is a significant difference between these authors use of hedging devices. The results can have implications for L2 teachers in that they should take measures to familiarize their students with the hedging devices and show them how to use hedges appropriately.

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“…I relate this to the phraseological approach and noticing hypothesis described earlier in the paper. Stubbs (1987) has noted that the formal written language of business correspondence is a context which produces a large number of explicit performatives, for example, May I wish you a successful and interesting conference, I emphasise thaty (op. cit.…”

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Exploiting a corpus of business letters from a phraseological, functional perspective

Flowerdew

2012

ReCALL

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This paper illustrates how a freely available online corpus has been exploited in a module on teaching business letters covering the following four speech acts (functions) commonly found in business letters: invitations, requests, complaints and refusals. It is proposed that different strategies are required for teaching potentially non-face-threatening (invitations, requests) and face-threatening (complaints, refusals) speech acts.The hands-on pedagogic activities follow the 'guided inductive approach' advocated by Johansson (2009) and draw on practices and strategies covered in the literature on using corpora in language learning and teaching, viz. the need for 'pedagogic mediation', and the 'noticing' hypothesis from second language acquisition studies.

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'A Matter of Prolonged Field Work': Notes Towards a Modal Grammar of English1

Cited by 193 publications

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Hedging Through the Use of Modal Auxiliaries in English Academic Discourse

Hedging Through the Use of Modal Auxiliaries in English Academic Discourse

A Cross-cultural Analysis of the Use of Hedging Devices in Scientific Research Articles

Exploiting a corpus of business letters from a phraseological, functional perspective

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