Conditionals and their Functions in Women's Scientific Writing

Castelo, Luis Miguel Puente; Monaco, Leida María

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.10.635

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“…The findings support the claim that if-conditionals are a hedging device facilitating interpersonal communication and convincing others to accept one's argument or assertion by showing respect and offering relevant evidence or information and allowing the freedom for message receivers to evaluate the conclusion (Ferguson, 2001;Carter-Thomas and Rowley-Jolivet, 2008;Puente-Castelo & Monaco, 2013;Warchal, 2010). Using if-conditionals to provide necessary information during the pandemic period corresponds to Mukhtar's (2020) suggestion that to deal with people's anxieties and fears at this time, it is important to give appropriate guidelines.…”

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confidence: 66%

“…Scientific writers also apply if-conditionals to obtain credibility as message receivers are believed not to appreciate a didactic tone but to more likely be convinced when the speaker shows humility and respect allowing listeners the freedom to analyze the provided information (Jensen, 2008;Puente-Castelo, 2013Warchal, 2010). Using if-conditionals, according to Warchal (2010), is a method of hedging which molds the speaker-audience relationship in many ways and which is intended to "open the dialogue with the discourse community by making a bid for acceptance as a well-informed partner in communication" (p. 141).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, for decades, several linguists have conducted research on if-conditionals (e.g. Horsella and Sindermann (1992), Ferguson (2001), Carter-Thomas andRowley-Jolivet (2008), Warchal (2010), Hesabi, Dehaghi, and Shahnazari (2013), Puente-Castelo (2013), Lampropoulou (2014), Montkhongtham (2017), Puente-Castelo (2017), Gabrielatos (2007Gabrielatos ( , 2010Gabrielatos ( , 2019, and Lastres-Lopez ( 2020)). Although if-conditionals have been categorized in many different ways (Declerk & Reed, 2001;Gabrielatos, 2019;Lastres-Lopez, 2020), all these researchers categorize if-conditionals based on functions.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Considering the communicative challenges and metaphorical limitations, what linguistic tools can be considered for effective communication relevant to the uncertainty of COVID-19? Ifconditionals, "the majority of conditional sentences in English'' (Dancygier, 1993, p. 403) or a significant communicative tool among members of scientific research community (Puente-Castelo, 2013), could be one answer. Linguists (e.g.…”

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A Coronavirus Corpus-driven Study on the Uses of If- Conditionals in the Pandemic Period

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The COVID-19 pandemic, has greatly affected the lives of everyone. One major concern during this period has been that of communication including content dealing with possibilities and ideology concerning freedom. Thisstudy aims to analyze the application of if-conditionals expressing options and possibilities during the COVID-19 pandemic using data in the Coronavirus Corpus developed in May 2020 by Mark Davies. The extracted if-conditionals were divided in accordance with Puente-Castelo’s (2017) framework of if-typology, and grammatical aspects of all the verb strings were also analyzed in terms of tense and aspect, sentential modality, and voice. It was discovered that speech act conditionals—relevance conditionals—were most commonly applied to provide specific suggestions to deal with the pandemic. The second and third-ranked choices, scoperestricting conditionals and hypothesizing conditionals helped to specify scopes and definitions and to emphasize possibilities and predictions or statistical estimates based on evidence, respectively. The grammatical aspects also corresponded to the COVID situation and helped to convey messages in accordance with the if-conditional functions. The results suggest that the if-construction provides communicative functions fitting various contexts relating to the pandemic. It can facilitate interpersonal communication, allow message receivers freedom to evaluate the proposed option, and provide some safety for the speaker in their choice of phrasing since COVID-19-related circumstances are uncertain. The information can be useful for those seeking linguistic tools for effective communicationand for instructors developing material for English for specific purposes.

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2024

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound effect on all aspects of society. As a component of this society, the academic and scientific community is not an exception. Numerous datasets have been compiled and made available over the past three years as a result of the extensive data collection efforts conducted by academics. Text corpora, as a rich source of information that is liable to be used for scientific inquiry, were compiled and made available from the onset of the pandemic. They differ in many aspects and compilation criteria, including origin, size, intended applications, text typology, and availability. This chapter is intended to provide a list of the most important text resources, together with some relevant research works that have used them.

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Conditionals and their Functions in Women's Scientific Writing

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A Coronavirus Corpus-driven Study on the Uses of If- Conditionals in the Pandemic Period

A Coronavirus Corpus-driven Study on the Uses of If- Conditionals in the Pandemic Period

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