3. Emphatics in academic discourse: Integrating corpus and discourse tools in the study of cross-disciplinary variation
Marina Bondi | University ofModena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
The role played by mitigation in academic discourse has been widely debated in the literature, but little attention has been paid to emphatics, expressions used to intensify the degree of certainty of an utterance and to increase its illocutionary force. Focusing on the use of adverbs in journal articles and on their evaluative orientations/parameters, the chapter looks at how their frequencies, meanings and uses vary across two “soft” disciplines: history and economics. The study combines a corpus and a discourse perspective, and shows that emphatics signal “engagement” as well as “stance”, by positioning research in the context of disciplinary debate, highlighting the significance of the data or the conclusions produced, negotiating convergent or conflicting positions with the reader.
2021. USING SFG TO ANALYZE AUTHORIAL EMPHASIZERS AND PROPOSITIONAL INTENSIFIERS: A COMPARISON OF ALBANIAN AND ITALIAN ACADEMIC WRITING. Discourse and Interaction 14:2 ► pp. 61 ff.
2013. Stylistic and Pedagogical Consequences of University Teaching in English in Europe. In Language Alternation, Language Choice and Language Encounter in International Tertiary Education [Multilingual Education, 5], ► pp. 181 ff.
Bondi, Marina
2012. Voice in Textbooks: between Exposition and Argument. In Stance and Voice in Written Academic Genres, ► pp. 101 ff.
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