Intercultural and interdisciplinary variation in the use of
epistemic lexical verbs in linguistics and economics research
articles

J 2018

Intercultural and interdisciplinary variation in the use of epistemic lexical verbs in linguistics and economics research articles

DONTCHEVA-NAVRÁTILOVÁ, Olga

Basic information

Original name

Intercultural and interdisciplinary variation in the use of epistemic lexical verbs in linguistics and economics research articles

Authors

DONTCHEVA-NAVRÁTILOVÁ, Olga (100 Bulgaria, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Linguistica Pragensia, Praha, Univerzita Karlova, 2018, 0862-8432

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

60203 Linguistics

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impact factor

Impact factor: 0.071 in 2012

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14410/18:00101332

Organization unit

Faculty of Education

UT WoS

000445549500002

Keywords in English

epistemic lexical verbs; persuasion; intercultural variation; disciplinary variation; research articles

Abstract

V originále

This paper explores rhetorical variation in academic discourse focusing on the choice and use of epistemic lexical verbs in linguistics and economics research articles written in English by Anglophone and Czech scholars. Drawing on Hyland’s (1998a) taxonomy of epistemic lexical verbs, the contrastive analysis combines quantitative and qualitative methods to consider how rhetorical variation is affected by the culture of the discipline and the culture of the writer. The investigation is carried out on a specialised corpus comprising 48 research articles (12 per discipline and cultural background) published in international and national (Czech) academic journals. Apart from establishing the frequency of occurrence of judgement and evidential epistemic lexical verbs, the analysis considers the immediate co-text of the target items and the distribution of different types of epistemic lexical verbs across the rhetorical sections of research articles. The results of the investigation indicate that while the lower frequency of use of epistemic lexical verbs in research articles by Czech writers is due to intercultural variation, the preferences towards the use of specific types of epistemic lexical verbs, the clusters they form, and their distribution across the rhetorical sections of research articles seem to reflect both cultural and disciplinary considerations. These findings suggest that culture and discipline seem to govern different aspects of rhetorical choices in academic discourse.

Links

GA17-16195S, research and development project

Name: Persvaze v anglickém a českém specializovaném diskurzu

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

Citovat

DONTCHEVA-NAVRÁTILOVÁ, Olga. Intercultural and interdisciplinary variation in the use of epistemic lexical verbs in linguistics and economics research articles. Linguistica Pragensia. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, 2018, vol. 28, No 2, p. 154-167. ISSN 0862-8432.

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DONTCHEVA-NAVRÁTILOVÁ, Olga. Intercultural and interdisciplinary variation in the use of epistemic lexical verbs in linguistics and economics research articles. \textit{Linguistica Pragensia}. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, 2018, vol.~28, No~2, p.~154-167. ISSN~0862-8432.

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