Talking to the literature:Stance taking in citing others’ work

Hyland, Ken and Jiang, Feng Kevin (2024) Talking to the literature:Stance taking in citing others’ work. In: Teaching and Learning Source-Based Writing. Routledge, London. ISBN 9781032254920

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Abstract

Academic citation is the mechanism which both expresses the advance of knowledge and distributes credit for priority, emphasising that research is embedded in a literature and that writers are linked into wider social networks. It is also central to the ways writers are able to rhetorically build on what has gone before and distinguish their work from that of others, so that taking a stance towards earlier work is often a key act of academic positioning. In this paper we explore the role of reporting verbs and stance features to convey the writer’s evaluation of information imported from other sources, commenting on its evidential status to represent reported material positively, negatively or neutrally. Based on the analysis of a corpus of 2.2 million words from the same leading journals in four disciplines in 1965, 1985 and 2015, we document the ways in which stance taking towards cited material has changed over the past 50 years.

Item Type:	Book Section
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Education and Lifelong Learning
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Language in Education
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	04 Apr 2023 10:30
Last Modified:	21 Dec 2023 02:28
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/91725
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