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Alghazo, Sharif; Al Salem, Mohd Nour; Alrashdan, Imran; Rabab'ah, Ghaleb – Online Submission, 2021
Stance is a feature of academic writing that refers to how writers interact and engage with their readers by means of linguistic devices. This study focuses on the grammatical devices--and semantic distinctions thereof--that are employed by academic writers of English to express stance in research article abstracts in the areas of applied…
Descriptors: Grammar, Research Reports, Semantics, Academic Language
Akbas, Erdem; Hardman, Jan – Online Submission, 2017
The writers of any scientific community are inherently expected to fulfil some agreed-upon discourse conventions of the academic discourse community (Molino, 2010) in the sense of creating a successful dialogic interaction through their texts. In line with this, Akbas (2014b) raised the question of "how and to what to extent writers…
Descriptors: Authors, Writing (Composition), Academic Language, Dialogs (Language)