Sentential Evidentials in Englihs Medical Research Papers

Almeida, Francisco Alonso; Adams, Heather

doi:10.4995/rlyla.2012.1119

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“…However, their focus is on the functions of the adverbs in different text types, rather than their association with specific disciplines. A number of studies have focused on cross-linguistic differences in the use of epistemic and evidential markers within one discipline, e.g., Alonso Almeida & Adams (2012), who have compared the use of evidential markers in medical research articles in English and Spanish.…”

Section: Epistemic Adverbs In Academic Discourse: Related Studiesmentioning

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Adverbial Markers of Epistemic Modality Across Disciplinary Discourses: A Contrastive Study of Research Articles in Six Academic Disciplines

Rozumko

2017

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia

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Epistemic adverbs, like other markers of epistemic modality, are concerned with the speaker's assessment of the truth value of the proposition. In other words, they indicate that the speaker considers certain situations as possible, impossible, probable, certain, or uncertain. At the same time, they signal the author's presence in the text, and invite the reader to make his/her own conclusions and interpretations. The use of modal markers has been demonstrated to differ across academic disciplines, but the specific differences concerning the use of epistemic adverbs have not been studied systematically. This paper investigates the use of epistemic adverbs in research articles representing six disciplines belonging to three different branches of science: the humanities (linguistics and literary studies), the social sciences (law and sociology), and the natural sciences (physics and medicine), with the aim of establishing discipline-specific tendencies in their use. The study is based on a corpus of 160 research articles compiled by the author. It begins with an attempt at delimiting the category of epistemic adverbs in English. After that, a list of the most frequent epistemic adverbs in the subcorpora of all the disciplines is established and discussed. The study demonstrates that frequent use of epistemic adverbs is largely a property of research articles in the humanities and social sciences. Medical and physics research articles use them significantly less often. The most frequent epistemic adverbs in the research articles under analysis include indeed,

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Section: Epistemic Adverbs In Academic Discourse: Related Studiesmentioning

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Adverbial Markers of Epistemic Modality Across Disciplinary Discourses: A Contrastive Study of Research Articles in Six Academic Disciplines

Rozumko

2017

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia

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“…Focusing on adverbials of stance and sentence evidentials in particular, Alonso-Almeida (2012) and Alonso-Almeida & Adams (2012) highlight that evidentiality and epistemicity should be faced as two different concepts, thus embracing Cornillie's standpoint. As Alonso-Almeida (2012) makes clear in reference to obviously:…”

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Evidence (re)presentation and evidentials in popular and academic history: facts and sources speaking for themselves

Bondi¹,

Sezzi²

2017

KLB

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The paper pivots around the different roles of evidentials and the different ways in which evidence is represented in the discourse of popular and academic history, thereby exploring the dynamics of both genres from a discourse analytical perspective. The analysis is based on two corpora of academic and popular articles on history. In particular, it is focused on those lexico-grammatical resources for tracing the speaker’s source and mode of information that constitute the distinguishing features of the two genres. The analysis shows that the high frequency of saw in popular articles refers to the narrative of history, and to the evidence provided by historical characters and sources, rather than by the speaker. The frequency of the attributor according in academic journal articles, on the other hand, clearly qualifies as evidentiality in the narrative of historiography, and acts as a marker of the importance of sources in historical reasoning. The different frequencies thus seem to be related to the different communicative and social functions of the two genres and to be closely connected with the triptych of narratives (Bondi 2015) involved in historical discourse.

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On the evidential use of English adverbials and their equivalents in Romance languages and Russian

Haßler

Böhm

Hennemann³

2017

Evidentiality Revisited

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Sentential Evidentials in Englihs Medical Research Papers

Cited by 8 publications

References 16 publications

Adverbial Markers of Epistemic Modality Across Disciplinary Discourses: A Contrastive Study of Research Articles in Six Academic Disciplines

Adverbial Markers of Epistemic Modality Across Disciplinary Discourses: A Contrastive Study of Research Articles in Six Academic Disciplines

Evidence (re)presentation and evidentials in popular and academic history: facts and sources speaking for themselves

On the evidential use of English adverbials and their equivalents in Romance languages and Russian

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