Reporting verbs in medical journal articles

Thomas, Sarah; Hawes, Thomas

doi:10.1016/0889-4906(94)90012-4

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“…Una de las funciones prototípicas de los AI es la atribución, es decir, el uso de las ideas de otros investigadores para sustentar teórica y retóricamente la pesquisa propia que se materializa en el AI. Al respecto, son especialmente importantes los denominados verbos de reporte (Thomas y Hawes 1994;Ädel y Garretson 2006). Algunas investigaciones proponen otros tipos léxicos verbales que son de uso común en los AI, detallando las funciones que esta categoría gramatical cumple.…”

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“…Basándose en el ampliamente aceptado modelo de Thompson y Yiyun (1991), Thomas y Hawes (1994) describen la presencia de tres macrocategorías de verbos en AI de medicina: los "verbos del mundo real", los verbos discursivos y los de cognición. Si bien en ese estudio se analiza la ocurrencia de los verbos en casi todas las partes del AI, los resultados no se muestran desagregados por sección, lo que, entendemos, no permite contar con una descripción más fina del fenómeno.…”

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“…Si bien en ese estudio se analiza la ocurrencia de los verbos en casi todas las partes del AI, los resultados no se muestran desagregados por sección, lo que, entendemos, no permite contar con una descripción más fina del fenómeno. La investigación (Thomas y Hawes 1994) propone una manera específica de vincular la ocurrencia de cierto tipo de verbo con propósitos comunicativos característicos de los AI (hacer referencia general a otros trabajos, explicar procedimientos, persuadir a la audiencia, entre otros). En esta misma línea, Tseng (2011) analiza el uso de los tiempos verbales en 90 resúmenes de artículos de investigación en tres revistas de lingüística aplicada.…”

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“…'El estudio de los verbos se ha desarrollado principalmente en el ámbito léxico). Es interesante destacar que en este trabajo, al igual que en otros reseñados (Tseng 2011;Thomas y Hawes 1994), se asocia el uso de ciertos tiempos verbales a la realización de propósitos comunicativos.…”

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Accidentes del verbo en las secciones de artículos de investigación

2013

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En este artículo, se describe la variación de los accidentes del verbo en las secciones de artículos de investigación en español. Para ello, se analizaron los accidentes del verbo de 42.086 formas verbales en un corpus representativo de 162 artículos de investigación, pertenecientes a 6 áreas de la ciencia y obtenidos de la base SciELO-Chile. Los resultados generales muestran que los elementos no marcados son siempre más frecuentes, independientemente del área de la ciencia y de la sección. Además, las áreas de la ciencia no afectan los patrones de uso de los verbos. Por último, al analizar la variación por sección, el único accidente que varía sustancialmente es el tiempo verbal. Los resultados de esta investigación son de utilidad para aquellos interesados en la descripción del discurso científico y en la didáctica de la escritura científica.Palabras clave: verbos, artículos de investigación, discurso científico, lingüística de corpus.This article attempts to describe verbal inflection variation in research article sections written in Spanish. In order to depict these inflections, we analyzed a corpus of 42.086 verbal forms from 162 research papers. These papers are from six scientific areas and were obtained from the Chilean SciELO index. General results show that unmarked elements are always more frequent regardless the scientific area or the section. Besides, we can state that verb patterns are not affected by the scientific area under analysis. Finally, when the sections of the papers were analyzed, we could find out that variation takes place only in tense. These results are useful for both scientific discourse description and the didactics of scientific writing.

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Accidentes del verbo en las secciones de artículos de investigación

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“…Charles 2006;Hyland 2002;Thomas and Hawes 1994;Thompson and Ye 1991). Two verb patterns are called upon here: V-that (Brown argues that…), and it be V-ed that (It has been reported that….).…”

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Citation Practices of Expert French Writers of English: Issues of Attribution and Stance

Rowley-Jolivet

Carter‐Thomas

2013

Second Language Learning and Teaching

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In research articles (RAs), reporting the results and claims of other authors is a crucial skill as it both demonstrates the writers' familiarity with the literature of the field and allows them to position their own findings and conclusions within the existing body of research, thus creating space to promote their work. Using citations effectively, however, demands considerable linguistic and rhetorical expertise. While several studies have shown that citation causes problems for novice researchers, the specific linguistic problems of expert non-English-speaking researchers have been little investigated. We hypothesize that their problems are unlikely to be the same as those of novices and that cultural and language factors may interfere when citing in a foreign language. To test this hypothesis, we collected a corpus comprising three subsets of articles: 40 pre-publication uncorrected draft manuscripts written in English by expert French researchers in engineering, science and computational linguistics; a comparable corpus of 40 published RAs by native English researchers in the same disciplines; and 40 published RAs written in French by French researchers. The drafts were first examined to detect potential problems with citation; we then checked whether these problems also occurred in the English RAs; if not, this was considered to indicate that it might be a problem specific to French researchers writing in English. The French RAs were then analysed to see which problems could be attributed to the influence of the French language or French citation conventions. The concordancer AntConc 3.2.1. was used for quantitative searches in the corpus. The results revealed that four features related to issues of attribution and stance were particularly problematic for the expert French writers: the use of reporting verbs, of according to, of the wouldconditional, and concessive if-clauses. The French writers of English used reporting that-clauses far less than the English writers, and with a more restricted range of verbs, a profile of use reflecting that of the French RA subset. The other three problems relate to the different spectrum of values that the English expressions and their French equivalents can take: according to and selon express different degrees of writer commitment to the cited source; the French conditional is widely used to express lack of commitment or distance, a value that is not directly transposable into the English would-conditional; si-clauses are frequently used to express concession, unlike if-clauses. French writers of English tended to import all these features specific to French into their English drafts, resulting in many cases of ambiguity as to the writer's position towards the cited source. This cross-linguistic study shows that citing in English is far from straightforward for writers of other languages, and that citation practices are neither language-nor culture-free. The influence of the writer's native language and of French academic citing conventions can be clearly per...

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