Stance adversbs in NSE and NNSE writers research article

Abstract

The research article is the most outstanding form of scientific interaction. It is acomplex construct due to the fact that it is highly interpersonal in spite of its apparentobjectivity in presenting information. It has been proposed that the aim of the researcharticle is to persuade so as to gain acceptance from the scientific community for theknowledge claims it presents. The effective writing of this type of texts depends asmuch on the content encoded as on the way writers communicate it and projectthemselves into the text by manipulating different linguistic resources such as stancedevices. This is a demanding task for native speakers of English as well as for non-native speakers of English. To better understand the problems NNSE writers face, thisthesis describes, interprets and explains the distribution and use of ?ly adverbs in thedifferent sections of research articles written and published in English and produced byNSE and NNSE writers. The findings show that there are differences in the use anddistribution of stance adverbs in the RA in English in the field of biology in twocorpora, a learner corpus and a reference corpus. Pedagogical applications andsuggestions for further research are provided.