Mapping Academic Values in the Disciplines: A Corpus-based ApproachA broad strand of applied linguistic research has focused on the language of science and scholarship, stressing its role in the construction and negotiation of knowledge claims. Central to the success of such texts is the use of evaluative expressions encoding what is considered to be desirable or undesirable in a given domain. While the speech acts relevant to evaluation have been extensively researched, little is known of the underlying values they encode. This volume seeks to fill the gap by exploring the main facets of academic value in a corpus of research articles from leading journals in anthropology, biology, computer science, economics, engineering, history, mathematics, medicine, physics and sociology. The collocations and qualified entities associated with such variables in the corpus provide insights into how scholars draw on a repertoire of conventional, largely unqualified, axiological meanings instrumental to the production of new knowledge in their field. |
Contents
Acknowledgements | 11 |
Theoretical background | 19 |
Materials and data | 65 |
Methodology | 73 |
Goodness markers | 89 |
Size markers | 123 |
Novelty markers | 147 |
Relevance markers | 175 |
General discussion | 209 |
Conclusions | 231 |
References | 245 |
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Common terms and phrases
academic discourse academic values adjectives adverbs analysis ANTH antonym Applied Linguistics axiological behaviour big rip candidate items community of practice concordancing construction context corpora corpus corpus linguistics cultural disciplinary community disciplines discourse community domains Dossena dyad encoded English enquiry evaluative evidence explicit Figure frequent genres Group HIST Hunston Hyland identified important interpretation investigation ISBN Journal judgements Language lexemes lexical set lexicalisations lexis Lingua Franca linked literature marking MATH Maurizio Gotti meaning methodology negative normalised norms noun novel observed occurrences parameters phenomena polarity polysemy positive predicative premodified prevalence prominent qualified entity quantitative R1 collocates RA authors realisations referents relatively relevance markers research article rhetorical scholars scientific semantic signal significance social sciences specific speech acts stance statistical Swales Table target texts textual tokens University US-ISBN value markers value-marking variables variation verbs words