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Sentential evidential adverbs and authorial stance in a corpus of English computing articles

Revista española de lingüística aplicada, 2012-03, Vol.25 (1), p.15 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

COPYRIGHT 2012 Revista Espanola de Linguistica Aplicada ;ISSN: 0213-2028 ;EISSN: 2254-6774

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    Sentential evidential adverbs and authorial stance in a corpus of English computing articles
  • Author: Almeida, Francisco Alonso
  • Is Part Of: Revista española de lingüística aplicada, 2012-03, Vol.25 (1), p.15
  • Description: This article considers evidentials as stancetaking markers. For this, I have selected a corpus of scientific computing articles from where evidential adverbs placed initially are analysed using corpus tools. The adverbs found in the corpus under survey are clearly, intuitively, obviously and experimentally. These findings suggest that, in this type of research articles, there is a preference to use adverbs in the field of clarity and obviousness. Many of these adverbs to show authorial stance are said to communicate the author's commitment towards the information given, and so these are categorised as epistemic adverbs. I will argue that this epistemic meaning is but a pragmatic effect rather than a primary function of these adverbs, and so they should be firstly categorised in the domain of evidentiality. KEYWORDS. Evidentiality, epistemic modality, stance, adverbs, computing research articles. RESUMEN. En este trabajo, se analizan los marcadores evidenciales para determinar si estos expresan o no el punto de vista de los autores. El corpus de trabajo consiste en articulos de investigacion informaticos en los que se ha analizado los adverbios evidenciales clearly, intuitively, obviously y experimentally en posicion inicial. El analisis de los datos revela que, en este tipo de articulos de investigacion, se usa de manera generalizada adverbios relacionados con los campos lexicos 'claridad'y 'obviedad'. Muchos de estos adverbios de punto de vista suelen categorizarse como adverbios epistemicos que sugieren el compromiso del autor con la informacion aportada. Una de las conclusiones de este trabajo es precisamente que la manifestacion del compromiso del autor, asi como los diferentes grados de verdad implicados en estos adverbios, solo son posibles efectos secundarios del uso evidencial de los mismos. PALABRAS CLAVE. Evidencialidad, modalidad epistemica, stance, adverbios, articulos de investigacion informaticos.
  • Publisher: Revista Espanola de Linguistica Aplicada
  • Language: Spanish
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0213-2028
    EISSN: 2254-6774
  • Source: Freely Accessible Arts & Humanities Journals check A Z of ejournals
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