Evaluative Meaning and Cohesion: The Structuring Function of Evaluative Meaning in Scientific Writing
We present a diachronic study of evaluative meaning in scientific writing, focusing on evaluative expressions that possibly serve the interpersonal as well as the textual metafunction in terms of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). These are expressions such as importantly or obviously used in se...
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| description | We present a diachronic study of evaluative meaning in scientific writing, focusing on evaluative expressions that possibly serve the interpersonal as well as the textual metafunction in terms of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). These are expressions such as importantly or obviously used in sentence-initial position to evaluate what follows but which also establish a cohesive link with the adjacent discourse. For the analysis, the SciTex corpus, comprising nine scientific disciplines, was used. The data were analyzed in macro and micro-analytical steps combining quantitative and qualitative analyses. This allows us to observe generalizable trends as well as fine-grained distinctions. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-4592099923d4499981f7a9574f5709aa2025-01-30T09:52:49ZengPresses universitaires de CaenDiscours1963-17232015-09-011610.4000/discours.9053Evaluative Meaning and Cohesion: The Structuring Function of Evaluative Meaning in Scientific WritingStefania Degaetano-OrtliebWe present a diachronic study of evaluative meaning in scientific writing, focusing on evaluative expressions that possibly serve the interpersonal as well as the textual metafunction in terms of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). These are expressions such as importantly or obviously used in sentence-initial position to evaluate what follows but which also establish a cohesive link with the adjacent discourse. For the analysis, the SciTex corpus, comprising nine scientific disciplines, was used. The data were analyzed in macro and micro-analytical steps combining quantitative and qualitative analyses. This allows us to observe generalizable trends as well as fine-grained distinctions.https://journals.openedition.org/discours/9053discourse relationscorpus linguisticsevaluative meaningtext organizationdata mining |
| spellingShingle | Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb Evaluative Meaning and Cohesion: The Structuring Function of Evaluative Meaning in Scientific Writing Discours discourse relations corpus linguistics evaluative meaning text organization data mining |
| title | Evaluative Meaning and Cohesion: The Structuring Function of Evaluative Meaning in Scientific Writing |
| title_full | Evaluative Meaning and Cohesion: The Structuring Function of Evaluative Meaning in Scientific Writing |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Evaluative Meaning and Cohesion: The Structuring Function of Evaluative Meaning in Scientific Writing |
| title_short | Evaluative Meaning and Cohesion: The Structuring Function of Evaluative Meaning in Scientific Writing |
| title_sort | evaluative meaning and cohesion the structuring function of evaluative meaning in scientific writing |
| topic | discourse relations corpus linguistics evaluative meaning text organization data mining |
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