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“The goal of this analysis …”: Changing patterns of metadiscursive nouns in disciplinary writing.
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The last 50 years have seen considerable changes in both research and publication practices in international English-medium arenas, and also witnessed a shift in argument styles in academic texts over these years (e.g. Hyland & Jiang, 2019). However, little attention was given to the rhetorical roles of nouns in diachronic studies of professional research writing. This is surprising since academic writing is an extremely noun-heavy register and novice writers often find nominal expressions difficult. In this study, we examine what are called metadiscursive nouns, a type of unspecific abstract nouns, in our diachronic corpus of disciplinary research writing to see whether they have increased in recent decades. It is found that this N pattern is most frequent overall, but hard scientists made increased use of quality nouns to promote the value of their research outcome while writers in the soft disciplines prefer evidential nouns for factual support to their knowledge claims. All these point to the need to include metadiscursive nouns into the rhetorical repertoire of metadiscourse and to emphasise their functions in the course of using English for research and publication purposes.
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URL: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/78156/1/Lingua_nouns._Pure.pdf
https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/78156/
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2020.103017
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Academic naming: Changing patterns of noun use in research writing
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The Covid infodemic: Competition and the hyping of virus research
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“There are significant differences…”: the secret life of existential there in academic writing
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