Despite growing evidence of its social and rhetorical aspects, research writing still has a reputation for impersonal neutrality and ‘facelessness'...
Keywords: research genres, expertise, deontic modality, scientific writing, modern systems
03/2005 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de GruyterTaking Hunston's (1994) model of evaluation in written academic discourse as a point of departure, this paper explores the ways in which experts in Greek television studio discussion programs evaluate the ‘status’ of their statements on-line in terms of the truth and reliability ascribed to them...
Keywords: Evaluation, expertise, factuality, modality, television talk, goals of communication
03/2005 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de GruyterThis paper is a contribution to research on the expression of expert advice-giving (e.g., Heritage and Sefi 1992; Silverman et al...
Keywords: advice, identity, expertise, directives, mitigation, humor, Internet language
01/2006 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de Gruyter