{"title":"Analysis of the linguistic expression I think in a corpus of late Modern English scientific texts","authors":"Francisco J. Álvarez-Gil, Natalia García Alonso","doi":"10.20420/RLFE.2019.380","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"espanolEste trabajo trata sobre la relacion entre modalidad y evidencialidad. Esta centrado especificamente en el uso de la expresion I think en combinacion con otros elementos modales, asi como los posibles efectos pragmaticos observados en muestras de textos obtenidas del Coruna Corpus of English Scientific Writing. Asimismo, analizamos si la variable de disciplina podria tener algun efecto sobre las funciones que la expresion lleva a cabo en estos textos. Aunque todavia queda mucho por investigar en textos academicos desde una perspectiva diacronica, hay algunos estudios previos sobre elementos de posicionamiento realizados en el ambito de la pragmatica historica (cf. Gray, Biber y Hiltunen 2011; Moskowich and Crespo 2014; Alonso-Almeida 2015; Alvarez-Gil, 2017, 2018, 2019). Siguiendo esta tradicion, nos centramos en la expresion I think, siguiendo el trabajo de van der Auwera y Plungian (1998) para la descripcion de la modalidad y los tipos modales EnglishThe present paper deals with the relationship between modality and evidentiality, focussed specifically on the use of the expression I think in combination with other modal devices, as well as the possible pragmatic effects observed in text samples obtained from the Coruna Corpus of English Scientific Writing and whether the variable of discipline might have some effect on the functions the expression represents in these texts. Even if much research is still to be done in academic texts from a diachronic perspective, there are some previous studies on stance devices carried out within the arena of historical pragmatics (cf. Gray, Biber and Hiltunen 2011; Moskowich and Crespo 2014; AlonsoAlmeida 2015; Alvarez-Gil 2017, 2018, 2019). Following this tradition, we focus on the expression I think, following the work of van der Auwera and Plungian (1998) for the description of modality and modal types.","PeriodicalId":41771,"journal":{"name":"LFE-Revista de Lenguas para Fines Especificos","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2019-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"LFE-Revista de Lenguas para Fines Especificos","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.20420/RLFE.2019.380","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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espanolEste trabajo trata sobre la relacion entre modalidad y evidencialidad. Esta centrado especificamente en el uso de la expresion I think en combinacion con otros elementos modales, asi como los posibles efectos pragmaticos observados en muestras de textos obtenidas del Coruna Corpus of English Scientific Writing. Asimismo, analizamos si la variable de disciplina podria tener algun efecto sobre las funciones que la expresion lleva a cabo en estos textos. Aunque todavia queda mucho por investigar en textos academicos desde una perspectiva diacronica, hay algunos estudios previos sobre elementos de posicionamiento realizados en el ambito de la pragmatica historica (cf. Gray, Biber y Hiltunen 2011; Moskowich and Crespo 2014; Alonso-Almeida 2015; Alvarez-Gil, 2017, 2018, 2019). Siguiendo esta tradicion, nos centramos en la expresion I think, siguiendo el trabajo de van der Auwera y Plungian (1998) para la descripcion de la modalidad y los tipos modales EnglishThe present paper deals with the relationship between modality and evidentiality, focussed specifically on the use of the expression I think in combination with other modal devices, as well as the possible pragmatic effects observed in text samples obtained from the Coruna Corpus of English Scientific Writing and whether the variable of discipline might have some effect on the functions the expression represents in these texts. Even if much research is still to be done in academic texts from a diachronic perspective, there are some previous studies on stance devices carried out within the arena of historical pragmatics (cf. Gray, Biber and Hiltunen 2011; Moskowich and Crespo 2014; AlonsoAlmeida 2015; Alvarez-Gil 2017, 2018, 2019). Following this tradition, we focus on the expression I think, following the work of van der Auwera and Plungian (1998) for the description of modality and modal types.