Stance markers in English medical research articles and newspaper opinion columns: A comparative corpus-based study.

ABSTRACT: Stance markers are critical linguistic devices for writers to convey their personal attitudes, judgments or assessments about the proposition of certain messages. Following Hyland's framework of stance, this study investigated the distribution of stance markers in two different genres: medical research articles (medical RA) and newspaper opinion columns (newspaper OC). The corpus constructed for the investigation includes 52 medical research articles and 175 newspaper opinion articles, which were both written in English and published from January to April in 2020 with the topic focusing on COVID-19. The findings of this study demonstrated that the occurrences of stance markers in newspaper OC were far more frequent than those in medical RA, indicating the different conventions of these two

SUBMITTER: Shen Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7939291 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature