Article: Claiming a territory: Relative clauses in journal descriptions

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TitleClaiming a territory: Relative clauses in journal descriptions
AuthorsTse, P2
Hyland, K1
KeywordsAcademic discourse
Evaluation
Journal descriptions
Relative clauses
Issue Date2010
PublisherElsevier BV. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/pragma
CitationJournal Of Pragmatics, 2010, v. 42 n. 7, p. 1880-1889 [How to Cite?]
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2009.12.025
AbstractThe study of evaluative features of language has been a productive source of insights into academic discourse in recent years, revealing the ways that persuasion is achieved in a range of genres. This research, however, has largely focused on word-level features, such as stance adverbials and evaluative adjectives (e.g. Hunston and Thompson, 2000), with the evaluative potential of clause-level resources under-explored. Nor has research had much to tell us about the more peripheral genres of the academy which are concerned with the distribution, rather than the production, of knowledge. In this paper we address both these issues by examining the role of the relative clause construction in a corpus of journal descriptions, the texts which define and endorse the goals and position of a journal. Our analysis of 200 journal descriptions in four contrasting disciplines reveals that relative clauses have an important, and perhaps surprising, role to play in this genre, functioning pragmatically as an evaluative and persuasive tool to promote academic journals. © 2010 Elsevier B.V.
ISSN0378-2166
2011 Impact Factor: 0.757
2011 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.029
DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2009.12.025
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dc.contributor.authorTse, P
dc.contributor.authorHyland, K
dc.date.accessioned2010-12-23T08:47:30Z
dc.date.available2010-12-23T08:47:30Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractThe study of evaluative features of language has been a productive source of insights into academic discourse in recent years, revealing the ways that persuasion is achieved in a range of genres. This research, however, has largely focused on word-level features, such as stance adverbials and evaluative adjectives (e.g. Hunston and Thompson, 2000), with the evaluative potential of clause-level resources under-explored. Nor has research had much to tell us about the more peripheral genres of the academy which are concerned with the distribution, rather than the production, of knowledge. In this paper we address both these issues by examining the role of the relative clause construction in a corpus of journal descriptions, the texts which define and endorse the goals and position of a journal. Our analysis of 200 journal descriptions in four contrasting disciplines reveals that relative clauses have an important, and perhaps surprising, role to play in this genre, functioning pragmatically as an evaluative and persuasive tool to promote academic journals. © 2010 Elsevier B.V.
dc.description.naturepostprint
dc.identifier.citationJournal Of Pragmatics, 2010, v. 42 n. 7, p. 1880-1889 [How to Cite?]
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2009.12.025
dc.identifier.citeulike6746466
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2009.12.025
dc.identifier.epage1889
dc.identifier.hkuros177330
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000278648600009
dc.identifier.issn0378-2166
2011 Impact Factor: 0.757
2011 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.029
dc.identifier.issue7
dc.identifier.openurl
dc.identifier.scopuseid_2-s2.0-77952886427
dc.identifier.spage1880
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/130134
dc.identifier.volume42
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherElsevier BV. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/pragma
dc.publisher.placeNetherlands
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Pragmatics
dc.relation.referencesReferences in Scopus
dc.rightsNOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Pragmatics. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Journal of Pragmatics, 2010, v. 42 n. 7, p. 1880–1889. DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2009.12.025
dc.rightsCreative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License
dc.subjectAcademic discourse
dc.subjectEvaluation
dc.subjectJournal descriptions
dc.subjectRelative clauses
dc.titleClaiming a territory: Relative clauses in journal descriptions
dc.typeArticle
Author Affiliations
  1. The University of Hong Kong
  2. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology