Academic Discourse and Global Publishing by Hyland Ken;Jiang Feng (Kevin);

Author:Hyland, Ken;Jiang, Feng (Kevin);
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2019-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

8.3 Searching for stance

Going back to the corpus we have used throughout this book, we searched for stance features using the concordance software AntConc (Anthony, 2018). We followed Hyland’s (2005b) approach to stance in academic writing which regards it as:

writer-oriented features of interaction and refers to the ways academics annotate their texts to comment on the possible accuracy or credibility of a claim, the extent they want to commit themselves to it, or the attitude they want to convey to an entity, a proposition, or the reader. (Hyland, 2005b: 178)

Stance comprises only half of Hyland’s model of intersubjective positioning (the other half, engagement, is examined in Chapter 10); it nevertheless represents a coherent concept and body of research. This framework encompasses three main components: evidentiality, affect and presence.

Evidentiality – the writer’s stated commitment to the reliability of the propositions he or she presents and their potential impact on the reader, expressed through hedges and boosters.

Affect – a broad range of personal and professional attitudes towards what is said expressed through attitude markers.

Presence – concerns the extent to which the writer chooses to intrude into a text through the use of first-person pronouns and possessive determiners.

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