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Communicating Certainty and Uncertainty in Medical, Supportive and Scientific ContextsEdited by Andrzej Zuczkowski, Ramona Bongelli, Ilaria Riccioni and Carla Canestrari
[Dialogue Studies 25] 2014
► pp. 341–368
Uncertainty markers in a corpus of German biomedical papers from Spektrum der Wissenschaft (1993-2012)
Paola Bucciarelli | University of Macerata, Italy
Ramona Bongelli | University of Macerata, Italy
Andrzej Zuczkowski | University of Macerata, Italy
Sibilla Cantarini | University of Verona, Italy
Christine Berthold | University of Macerata, Italy
In this paper we present the analysis of uncertainty markers in a corpus of 60 articles randomly selected from the German popular science magazine
Spektrum der Wissenschaft since 1993 until 2012. In addition to identifying which and how many uncertainty lexical and morphosyntactic markers were used by scientific writers, our aims were to detect their trends over time and single out their scope, in order to test if the ratio between the amount of certainty and uncertainty remained constant in all the papers or if, on the contrary, it changed over time. The results show that there were no significant changes.
Published online: 26 November 2014
https://doi.org/10.1075/ds.25.16buc
https://doi.org/10.1075/ds.25.16buc
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