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Linguistic Markers of Stance in Early and Advanced Academic Writing

Written Communication, 2014
This article uses corpus methods to examine linguistic expressions of stance in over 4,000 argumentative essays written by incoming first-year university students in comparison with the writing of upper-level undergraduate students and published academics.
Laura L. Aull, Zak Lancaster
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The stance of stalking: a corpus-based analysis of grammatical markers of stance in threatening communications

Corpora, 2015
Threats made by stalkers have tremendous negative effects on the more than one million victims who receive them every year – from experiencing ‘psychological terrorism’ to undergoing physical harm ( Burgess and Marchetti, 2009 ). However, stalking, a criminal offence within the law, is ill-defined and difficult to prosecute, since the victim of ...
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The use of stance markers in West African Englishes

2019
Abstract This chapter investigates the extent of similarity in the use of stance markers in two national varieties of West African English, Nigerian English and Ghanaian English, and compares them to British English. The frequency and stylistic variability of four semantic groups of stance markers were examined in ICE-Nigeria and ICE-Ghana and compared
Ulrike Gut, Foluke Unuabonah
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Ara⁠ʾaytum: The Exegetical Implications of a Qurʾānic Stance Marker

Al-Bayān – Journal of Qurʾān and Ḥadīth Studies, 2017
AbstractDiscourse markers are lexical items that play the role of conveying the speaker’s attitude towards the topic of conversation. Although discourse markers have this function, they have little semantic content, yet their importance for understanding (oral) discourse can hardly be overestimated.
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STANCE AND ENGAGEMENT DISCOURSE MARKERS IN JOURNAL’S “AUTHOR GUIDELINES”

2015
Over the past decade, there has been an increasing interest in the study of interactional metadiscourse markers in different contexts. However, not much research has been conducted about the discourse of journal author guidelines, especially the use of meta-discourse markers in this genre.
moini, raouf, Salami, Malihe
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Butas a stance marker in Nigerian investigative public hearings

Pragmatics and Society, 2017
AbstractThis study examines the kinds of stance thatbutas a contrastive marker signals in Nigerian investigative public hearings, with a view to exploring the contexts in which the stances are made. The study examines forty purposively selected investigative public hearing sessions which involve interactions between complainants, defendants and a ...
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Linguistic markers of stance in advanced second language Spanish academic writing

2021
Abstract Written academic texts allow for the observation of advanced capacities as writers must negotiate identities in order to position their claims within a disciplinary community. The construct of stance focuses on how a writer stamps her/his personal authority on a text.
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Tag questions as intersubjective stance markers

2018
In this paper we analyse tag questions yes? and no? as Intersubjective Stance markers in casual conversation. We consider that the elements studied can have different functions in discourse, and can contribute to the adoption of a certain intersubjective stance, according to the speaker's communicative needs.
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Multifunctionality of stance markers in soft sciences

2022
Feng Cao, Guangwei Hu
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What’s in a name? Stance markers in oral argument about marriage laws

Discourse & Communication, 2011
This study examines the relationship between person-referencing terms and attorney and judges’ stances during oral argument in three US state supreme courts as each considered whether its existing state law could restrict marriage to one man and one woman.
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