Article: Hooking the reader: A corpus study of evaluative that in abstracts
| Title | Hooking the reader: A corpus study of evaluative that in abstracts |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hyland, K2 Tse, P1 |
| Issue Date | 2005 |
| Publisher | Pergamon. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/esp |
| Citation | English For Specific Purposes, 2005, v. 24 n. 2, p. 123-139 [How to Cite?] DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.esp.2004.02.002 |
| Abstract | The linguistic resources used by academic writers to adopt a position and engage with readers, variously described as evaluation, stance and metadiscourse, have attracted increasing attention in the literature over the last 10 years and now form an important element of many ESP courses. A relatively overlooked interpersonal feature, however, is what we shall call 'evaluative that'. This is a structure which allows a writer to thematize attitudinal meanings and offer an explicit statement of evaluation by presenting a complement clause within a super-ordinate clause (as in We believe that this is an interesting construction ). In this paper, we explore the frequencies, forms and functions of evaluative that in two corpora of 465 abstracts from published research articles and masters and doctoral dissertations written by L2 students. Comparing student and published use of the structure across six disciplines, we find evaluative that is widely employed in these abstracts and is an important means of providing author comment and evaluation. We also show similarities and differences in how these groups used the structure by exploring what writers chose to evaluate, the stances they took, the source they attributed the stance to, and how they expressed their evaluations. © 2004 The American University. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
| ISSN | 0889-4906 2011 Impact Factor: 1.282 2011 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.038 |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.esp.2004.02.002 |
| ISI Accession Number ID | WOS:000226534400002 |
| References | References in Scopus |
| dc.contributor.author | Hyland, K |
|---|---|
| dc.contributor.author | Tse, P |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-12-23T08:47:34Z |
| dc.date.available | 2010-12-23T08:47:34Z |
| dc.date.issued | 2005 |
| dc.description.abstract | The linguistic resources used by academic writers to adopt a position and engage with readers, variously described as evaluation, stance and metadiscourse, have attracted increasing attention in the literature over the last 10 years and now form an important element of many ESP courses. A relatively overlooked interpersonal feature, however, is what we shall call 'evaluative that'. This is a structure which allows a writer to thematize attitudinal meanings and offer an explicit statement of evaluation by presenting a complement clause within a super-ordinate clause (as in We believe that this is an interesting construction ). In this paper, we explore the frequencies, forms and functions of evaluative that in two corpora of 465 abstracts from published research articles and masters and doctoral dissertations written by L2 students. Comparing student and published use of the structure across six disciplines, we find evaluative that is widely employed in these abstracts and is an important means of providing author comment and evaluation. We also show similarities and differences in how these groups used the structure by exploring what writers chose to evaluate, the stances they took, the source they attributed the stance to, and how they expressed their evaluations. © 2004 The American University. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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| dc.identifier.citation | English For Specific Purposes, 2005, v. 24 n. 2, p. 123-139 [How to Cite?] DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.esp.2004.02.002 |
| dc.identifier.citeulike | 6902964 |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.esp.2004.02.002 |
| dc.identifier.epage | 139 |
| dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000226534400002 |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0889-4906 2011 Impact Factor: 1.282 2011 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.038 |
| dc.identifier.issue | 2 |
| dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-11044235847 |
| dc.identifier.spage | 123 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/130166 |
| dc.identifier.volume | 24 |
| dc.language | eng |
| dc.publisher | Pergamon. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/esp |
| dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom |
| dc.relation.ispartof | English for Specific Purposes |
| dc.relation.references | References in Scopus |
| dc.title | Hooking the reader: A corpus study of evaluative that in abstracts |
| dc.type | Article |
Author Affiliations
- Chinese University of Hong Kong
- University of London, Institute of Education