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Sentential evidential adverbs and authorial stance in a corpus of English computing articles

Authors: Alonso-Almeida, Francisco;

Sentential evidential adverbs and authorial stance in a corpus of English computing articles

Abstract

En este trabajo, se analizan los marcadores evidenciales para determinar si estos expresan o no el punto de vista de los autores. El corpus de trabajo consiste en artículos de investigación informáticos en los que se ha analizado los adverbios evidenciales clearly, intuitively, obviously y experimentally en posición inicial. El análisis de los datos revela que, en este tipo de artículos de investigación, se usa de manera generalizada adverbios relacionados con los campos léxicos ‘claridad’ y ‘obviedad’. Muchos de estos adverbios de punto de vista suelen categorizarse como adverbios epistémicos que sugieren el compromiso del autor con la información aportada. Una de las conclusiones de este trabajo es precisamente que la manifestación del compromiso del autor, así como los diferentes grados de verdad implicados en estos adverbios, solo son posibles efectos secundarios del uso evidencial de los mismos.

This article considers evidentials as stancetaking markers. For this, I have selected a corpus of scientific computing articles from where evidential adverbs placed initially are analysed using corpus tools. The adverbs found in the corpus under survey are clearly, intuitively, obviously and experimentally. These findings suggest that, in this type of research articles, there is a preference to use adverbs in the field of clarity and obviousness. Many of these adverbs to show authorial stance are said to communicate the author’s commitment towards the information given, and so these are categorised as epistemic adverbs. I will argue that this epistemic meaning is but a pragmatic effect rather than a primary function of these adverbs, and so they should be firstly categorised in the domain of evidentiality.

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Keywords

Stance, Adverbs, Computing research articles, Epistemic modality, Evidencialidad, Adverbios, Artículos de investigación informáticos, Evidentiality, 5701 Lingüística aplicada, Modalidad epistémica, 57 Lingüística

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