چکیده:
Abstract The study of linguistic devices variously referred to as stance expressions is one of the best means by which the relationship between the writer, the reader, and propositional meaning could be examined. This paper looks at a particular structural group of lexical bundles encoding stance expressions. These are bundles starting with an anticipatory it followed by is, a predicative adjective and finally ending with infinitival to or complementizer that (e.g. it is important to, it is possible that). The use of these bundles is compared in three corpora of research articles, doctoral dissertations, and master theses in the discipline of applied linguistics to explore possible generic variations and identify possible differences between published students writing. Using Hewings and Hewings's functional typology of interpersonal roles of it clauses (2002), this group of bundles is found to have three stance expressions of hedging, marking attitude, and stressing emphasis. The major difference is discovered to be between students' genres and research articles, with the former drawing less in their expression of interpersonal meanings. The differences are accounted for by referring to generic expectations, and students' growing disciplinary identity. The findings of the study have some implications for academic writing.
خلاصه ماشینی:
The use of these bundles is compared in three corpora of research articles, doctoral dissertations, and master theses in the discipline of applied linguistics to explore possible generic variations and identify possible differences between published students writing.
Keywords: anticipatory it bundles, stance expressions, academic writing, research articles Introduction Lexical bundles were first introduced and defined by Biber, Johansson, Leech, Conrad, and Finegan (1999) in their well-known rendering of English grammar.
One the other hand, by embarking on such a structure, the writer is able to evaluate the ensuing proposition (Hunston and Sinclair, 2000), and finally to depersonalize the opinions (Hewings and Hewings, 2002) as can be seen in the following examples taken from the corpus of research articles used in this study: (1) First, it is important to help student-teachers to look at teaching through multiple but complementary lenses.
More specifically, this study focuses on the use of anticipatory it lexical bundles in three corpora of research articles, master theses, and doctoral dissertations, all in the single discipline of applied linguistics, to find the extent to which published academics in this area are different among postgraduate students in the variety of used bundles and the functions to which they have been put.
Table 3, Master theses and doctoral dissertations corpora word count {مراجعه شود به فایل جدول الحاقی} Table 4, Research articles corpus word count {مراجعه شود به فایل جدول الحاقی} Computer programs Two computer programs were used in this study in order to explore lexical bundles, their frequencies, the number of texts in which they had been used as well as their actual contexts of use: Antconc3.