The role played by mitigation in academic discourse has been the subject of intense scholarly interest over the last two decades,
but interest in the role played by intensifying textual elements expressing evaluation and stance — emphasizers — is a more recent
turn. This paper presents a preliminary attempt at capturing the uses of the adverb really across spoken and
written academic registers. The adverb really is examined with an eye to how its frequencies, meanings and uses
vary across spoken and written academic discourse. The findings will also be interpreted in terms of variation across genres and
disciplines. A quantitative analysis of this adverb reveals significant distributional trends across both academic genres and
disciplines, and a qualitative analysis of concordance lines confirms that these trends are motivated by genre-specific purposes
and disciplinary-specific practices, respectively.
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Song, Ningyuan, Kejun Chen & Yuehua Zhao
2023. Understanding writing styles of scientific papers in the IS-LS domain: Evidence from abstracts over the past three decades. Journal of Informetrics 17:1 ► pp. 101377 ff.
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