Exploring Male and Female Voices through Epistemic Modality and Evidentiality in Some Modern English Travel Texts on the Canaries [PDF]
, 2012 This article describes authorial voice through evidential and epistemic sentential devices in a corpus of 19th and early 20th century travel texts. The corpus contains four works written by female travellers and the other four by men.
Alonso-Almeida, Francisco +1 more
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The Application of Diachronic Corpus Compilation Principles in a Pilot Study of Subjectivity
Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture, 2023 Researchers claim (see Egbert, 2018) that, irrespective of the growing amount of corpora, there is insufficient focus on the research and discussion of corpus creation and analysis challenges.
Kristīna Korneliusa, Zigrīda Vinčela
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A Corpus-based Analysis of Epistemic Stance Adverbs in Essays Written by Native English Speakers and Iranian EFL Learners [PDF]
Journal of English Language Pedagogy and Practice, 2020 Academic essays entail taking a stance on the truth value of propositions. Epistemic adverbs deal with the speaker's assessment of the truth value of propositions. Employing a corpus-based approach with descriptive statistics and qualitative description,
Amir Sabzevar +2 more
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Stance-taking: reporting verbs in citations in EFL undergraduate theses
DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2021 L2 writers tend to have difficulties in using reporting verbs (Bloch, 2010) because the choosing of reporting verb needs some considerations: the stance of the author whose claims are being reported, the stance of the writer, and the interpretation of ...
Pamela Olmos-Lopez
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Beardsley on literature, fiction, and nonfiction [PDF]
, 2016 This paper attempts to revive interest in the speech act theory of literature by looking into Monroe C. Beardsley's account in particular. Beardsley's view in this respect has received, surprisingly, less attention than deserved.
Lin, Szu-Yen
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“some kind of thing it aint us but yet its in us”: David Mitchell, Russell Hoban, and metafiction after the millennium [PDF]
, 2014 This article appraises the debt that David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas owes to the novels of Russell Hoban, including, but not limited to, Riddley Walker. After clearly mapping a history of Hoban’s philosophical perspectives and Mitchell’s inter-textual genre-
Adorno T. W. +37 more
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D. H. Lawrence and the Truth of Literature [PDF]
, 2019 We first clarify that what Lawrence means by truth is moral truth, and that the novel is for him the best vehicle to communicate with the “subtle interrelatedness” without which morality is merely moralism.
Moyal-Sharrock, Daniele, Sharrock, Peter
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Concluding commentary: Response to Eugene and Kiyo [PDF]
, 2014 At the risk of speaking on his behalf I could almost swear I heard Bakhtin laughing gleefully over my shoulder as I read this fascinating dialogue between Eugene and Kiyo. His reason for this might be partly inspired by the glaring misunderstandings both
White, Elizabeth Jayne
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Stance in REF Submissions: Authorial Positioning in Impact Narratives [PDF]
Written CommunicationThe Research Excellence Framework (REF) is the U.K. government’s means of allocating funding to universities based on assessments of the research they produce. Conducted every five years, this exercise now includes not only the ‘quality’ of research but also its real-world ‘impact’.
Ken Hyland, Feng (Kevin) Jiang
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Local flavour vs global audiences: Elena Ferrante and translatability [PDF]
, 2017 Through an analysis of the novels written under the pen name ElenaFerrante and of the paratextual elements that surround them, thisarticle examines the portrayal of Naples and its outskirts in thesenarratives, and how the specific geographical and ...
Segnini, Elisa
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