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Hedging in the Structure of Mathematical Discourse: A Study Based on Discourse Analysis of Research Articles

HRADILOVÁ, Alena

Basic information

Original name

Hedging in the Structure of Mathematical Discourse: A Study Based on Discourse Analysis of Research Articles

Authors

Edition

188 pp. 2010

Publisher

Lambert academic publishing

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Odborná kniha

Field of Study

60200 6.2 Languages and Literature

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Organization unit

Language Centre

ISBN

978-3-8383-7323-2
Změněno: 6/9/2011 13:51, Mgr. Alena Hradilová, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

Hedgigng in Mathematical Discourse The book deals with some features of mathematical discourse typical of the genre of mathematical research articles, namely with the structure of mathematical research articles and the distribution of hedges within this structure. A corpus of 30 mathematical research articles (over 100 000 words) from different sources has been used for this purpose. The research is partly based on previously described theories. Nevertheless, as a similar study in the area of mathematical discourse has not been found, some new methods have been developed and applied as well. For the purposes of the structural analysis of the corpus material, Swales' (1990) IMRD pattern and Tarone's et al. (1998) Inverted Pyramid pattern have been applied and adapted. The analysis of hedging has been drawn on a number of previously proposed theories and a new functional approach towards hedging has been proposed and applied. The two analyses concentrate mainly on finding a generally applicable pattern of mathematical research articles and identification of regularities regarding the functional use and distribution of hedges in these articles.