Stance in English Research Articles: Two Disciplines of the Same Science

Research in academic writing has revealed a strong tendency on the part of writers to interactively communicate their stance with their readers. This study targets the stance component of writer-reader interaction by integrating Hyland’s (۲۰۰۵b) and Hyland and Tse’s (۲۰۰۵) frameworks to investigate psychology and sociology English research articles; the former for lexical stance markers and the latter for grammatical evaluative that construction. The corpus included ۱۰۰ English research articles published during ۲۰۱۲-۲۰۱۴, ۵۰ from each field, yielding a total number of ۹۲۲,۴۰۰ words. The data were first analyzed by AntConc (Anthony, ۲۰۱۴) and, to ensure maximum reliability, a crosscheck was carried out by the researchers to discard the anomalies. Moreover, chi-square was run to compare the results. The results suggested remarkable similarities and significant differences between those disciplines. Based on the findings, some implications are drawn with plausible applicability in academic writing and EAP syllabus design. Finally, suggestions are put forward for future research.

کلیدواژه ها:

academic writing ، discipline ، Research Article ، Stance