Kimberly Becker
List of John Benjamins publications for which Kimberly Becker plays a role.
Article
2020. Stance in unpublished student writing: An exploratory study of modal verbs in MICUSP’s Physical Science papers. Advances in Corpus-based Research on Academic Writing: Effects of discipline, register, and writer expertise, Römer, Ute, Viviana Cortes and Eric Friginal (eds.), pp. 255–278
This exploratory study investigates modal verbs as stance features in the Physical Sciences sub-corpus of the Michigan Corpus of Upper-Level Student Papers (MICUSP). The study adopts Biber’s (2006) stance framework, including modal verbs in three categories: possibility, necessity, and prediction.… read more | Chapter