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- Title: Stance and Academic Promotionalism: A Cross-Disciplinary Comparison in the Soft Sciences (Report)
- Author : revista de la Asociacion Espanola de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos Atlantis
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 263 KB
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Stance in academic prose has been a major focus of research attention in the past decade. However, studies on stance in the soft sciences have been relatively scarce compared to those in the hard sciences. By comparing two disciplines in the soft sciences, this paper explores the semantic and syntactic profiles of stance adjectives in research article introductions--a section in which writers are expected to find a research space in order to convince readers of the value and usefulness of their research. The paper also examines the functional uses of stance adjectives as rhetorical devices that writers employ to assess research processes and give significance to research outcomes. Quantitative results show that stance adjectives share relatively similar semantic and syntactic profiles in both disciplines. However, the rhetorical analysis of stance adjectives suggests different discipline-specific conventions as regards the use of adjectives within the Create-a-Research-Space model established for writing introductions. These differences might be attributed to the specific nature of knowledge of each discipline as well as to the established conventions for research writing in each disciplinary community. Key words: stance; evaluative adjectives; soft sciences; academic promotionalism; academic rhetoric; disciplinary writing