Certainty and doubt in academic discourse: Epistemic modality markers in English and Polish linguistics articles

Krystyna Warchał

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Uniwersytet Śląski

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2015

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314

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Warchał, Krystyna. Certainty and doubt in academic discourse: Epistemic modality markers in English and Polish linguistics articles. Red. . Katowice: Uniwersytet Śląski, 2015, 314 s. ISBN 978-83-8012-456-1

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ISBN/ISSN:

978-83-8012-456-1

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Uniwersytet Śląski

Rok wydania:

2015

Liczba stron:

314

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ONIX MARC21

ContentsIntroduction /7
1. Academic discourse and its rhetoric /11
1.1 Academic discourse community: its genres and values /15
1.2 The cultural factor in academic communication /18
1.3 English academic discourse: Previous studies /22
1.3.1 Academic register(s) /22
1.3.2 Academic genres /26
1.3.3 Principal themes /32
1.3.4 English as an academic lingua franca /41
1.4 Polish academic discourse: Previous studies /44
1.5 Concluding remarks /50
2.1 Approaches and concepts /53
2. Linguistic modality /53
2.1.1 Sentential, sub-sentential and discourse modality /54
2.1.2 Modality and mood /55
2.1.3 Modality and the propositional content /57
2.1.4 Modality and subjectivity /59
2.1.5 Modality and the realis/irrealis distinction /63
2.1.6 Modality and relevance /67
2.2 Modal meanings and values /71
2.2.1 The epistemic/deontic distinction and related modal subdomains /71
2.2.2 The root/epistemic distinction /74
2.2.3 Epistemicity, speaker-orientedness, and agent-orientedness /79
2.2.4 Epistemicity and evidentiality /83
2.2.5 Modal scales /88
2.3 Epistemic modality markers /92
2.3.1 Epistemic markers in English /92
2.3.2 Epistemic markers in Polish /99
2.4 Modality in academic discourse: Previous studies /111
2.5 Concluding remarks /120
3.1 Aims /123
3. The project /123
3.2 Corpus description /125
3.3 The analysis /127
4.1 High-value markers /133
4.1.1 English /133
4. Markers of (un)certainty in English and Polish linguistics articles /133
4.1.2 Polish /149
4.1.3 Discussion /160
4.2 Middle-value markers /166
4.2.1 English /166
4.2.2 Polish /187
4.2.3 Discussion /205
4.3 Low-value markers /213
4.3.1 English /213
4.3.2 Polish /233
4.3.3 Discussion /246
5. Conclusions /255
References /265
Index of names /291
Index of modality markers /297
Streszczenie /301
Zusammenfassung /303
List of tables /305
List of figures /309

Introduction

Whenpeoplesaythattheyknowsomething,theyhavetheirreasonstofeel

certainthatsomethingisthecase.Scientificknowledgerequiresthattheserea-

sonsbeofaspecifickind,thattheybebackedbydatacollectedinthecourse

ofobservationandsystematicexperimentation.Moreover,asthedevelop-

mentsbroughtbysocialconstructionismhaveshown,thestatusofthesedata

astheempiricalbasisofknowledgeissanctionedbytheparticularsocialcon-

textwhereknowledgeisgenerated,asisthevalueofobservationandexperi-

mentaslegitimatescientificprocedures(BergerandLuckmann,1967).Inthis

perspective,knowledgeisrelativetothecommunitieswhichproduceitand

emergesinacomplexprocessofnegotiatingasharedvisionoftheworldand

asharedunderstandingofwhatconstitutesanappropriateobjectofscientific

inquiry,avalidscientificmethod,andameaningfulacademiccontribution.

Thus,ratherthanafaithfulrepresentationofanobjectivelygivenreality,sci-

entificknowledgecanbeviewedasaproductofsociety,createdaccordingto

theprinciplesaparticularcommunityjudgesappropriateandaimingtoex-

plainthisrealitywhichisavailabletoandagreeduponbythisparticulargroup.

Itisthentoalargeextentamatterofsocialconsensus.

Theconsensualnatureofscientificknowledgeandthefactthatitisgener-

atedininteractionbetweencommunitymembersimpliesthatsignalsofepis-

temicstanceinacademicdiscoursewillreflectnotonlythedegreeoftheau-

thor)spersonalcommitmenttothetruthofaproposition,butalsotheauthor)s

awarenessofothermembersofthediscoursecommunity,ofthestateofthe

artinthediscipline,andoftheestablishedpatternsofinteractionwithoth-

ers.Forexample,anexpressionofcertaintymayconveyinformationaboutthe

author)scommitmentderivingfromtheamount,distribution,andconsisten-

cyofthedatagathered,thusbeingadirectclaimtoexpertise;itmayindicate

thattheinformationpresentedhasalreadybeenacceptedbythediscourse

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