Chapter 10
“If you will take the trouble to inquire into it rather closely, I think
you will find that it is not worth very much”
Authorial presence through conditionals and citation sequences in late
modern English life sciences texts
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.The author in the text in late modern English scientific writing
- 3.An overview on studies of authorial presence
- 4.Conditionals and authorial presence
- 5.Expressing opinions by means of citation sequences
- 6.Corpus and methodology
- 7.Analysis of the results
- 7.1Conditionals
- a.Relevance conditionals
- b.Non-committal conditionals
- c.Metalinguistic conditionals
- 7.2Citation sequences
- a.Isolated quotations
- b.Citation sequences expressing agreement
- c.Citation sequences expressing neutrality
- d.Citation sequences expressing disagreement
- 8.Concluding remarks
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Acknowledgements
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Notes
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