Journal•ISSN: 1874-8767
English Text Construction
John Benjamins Publishing Company
About: English Text Construction is an academic journal published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Linguistics & Narrative. It has an ISSN identifier of 1874-8767. Over the lifetime, 188 publications have been published receiving 1593 citations.
Topics: Linguistics, Narrative, Rhetorical question, Academic writing, Grammar
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TL;DR: This paper explore the idea of "disciplinary voice" by focusing on the interpersonal features of academic writing and elaborating how writers position themselves and their readers, and show how the choices writers make from these systems construct authorial voice, academic arguments, and the disciplines themselves.
Abstract: The concept of voice has become central to studies of discourse, composition, and literature, but in this paper I want to shift its meaning a little to explore an area where voice is thought to play only a minor role: that of academic writing. I intend here to explore the idea of ‘disciplinary voice’ by focusing on the interpersonal features of academic writing and elaborating how writers position themselves and their readers. Essentially, I believe the idea of voice can shed light on aspects of disciplinary argument and am interested to see what these features tell us about writers’ notions of appropriate relationships and what this means for writing in the disciplines. I will begin by looking briefly at the notion of voice, and go on to sketch an interactional model based on the ideas of stance, or how writers convey their attitudes and credibility, and engagement, or the ways they bring their readers into the discourse. I will then show how the choices writers make from these systems construct authorial voice, academic arguments, and the disciplines themselves.
153 citations
TL;DR: This paper found that expressions at left periphery are likely to be subjective (oriented toward turn-taking and discourse coherence), those at right periphery intersubjective (oriented towards turn-giving or elicitation of response, and toward the Addressee's stance and participation in the communicative situation.).
Abstract: Ways of identifying subjectification and especially intersubjectification are discussed using data from the history of English no doubt and surely. These adverbs arose out of non-modal expressions and were recruited for use as epistemic adverbs and metadiscursive markers. The data are shown not to support the hypothesis that expressions at left periphery are likely to be subjective (oriented toward turn-taking and discourse coherence), those at right periphery intersubjective (oriented toward turn-giving or elicitation of response, and toward the Addressee’s stance and participation in the communicative situation.). While no doubt is subjective at both left and right periphery, surely is intersubjective at both peripheries
132 citations
TL;DR: This article used corpus data to examine how upper-intermediate to advanced EFL learners from a wide range of mother tongue backgrounds perform a number of rhetorical functions particularly prominent in academic discourse, and how this compares with native academic writing.
Abstract: The study reported on in this paper uses corpus data in order to examine how upper-intermediate to advanced EFL learners from a wide range of mother tongue backgrounds perform a number of rhetorical functions particularly prominent in academic discourse, and how this compares with native academic writing. In particular, it is shown that one of the problems experienced by EFL learners is that they tend to use features that are more typical of speech than of academic prose, which suggests that they are largely unaware of register differences. Four possible explanations are offered to account for this register confusion, namely the influence of speech, L1 transfer, teaching-induced factors and developmental factors.
121 citations
TL;DR: The authors compare a few notions of "subjectivity" (vs. "objectivity" or "intersubjectivity") circulating in the current functional and cognitive linguistic literature and demonstrate that, in spite of some points of contact in the analysis of certain linguistic issues, these notions actually refer to substantially different phenomena and should therefore not be confused.
Abstract: This paper compares a few notions of ‘subjectivity’ (vs. ‘objectivity’ or ‘intersubjectivity’) circulating in the current functional and cognitive linguistic literature. It aims to demonstrate that, in spite of some points of contact in the analysis of certain linguistic issues, e.g. in the sphere of the modal categories, these notions actually refer to substantially different phenomena and should therefore not be confused.
84 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a new analytical model that leads corpus researchers to a profile of the central phraseological items in a selected text or text collection is introduced. But the model is applied to a 3.5-million word corpus of online academic book reviews that represents part of the specialized discourse of the global community of linguists.
Abstract: Starting from the observation that meaning does not primarily reside in individual words but in the phrase, this paper focuses on the examination of recurring phrases in language. It introduces a new analytical model that leads corpus researchers to a profile of the central phraseological items in a selected text or text collection. In this paper, the model is applied to a 3.5-million word corpus of online academic book reviews that represents part of the specialized discourse of the global community of linguists. This demonstrates how the model facilitates the study of the occurrence and distribution of the central phraseological items in linguistic book reviews, and how it helps to determine the extent of the phraseological tendency of language.
70 citations