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T1 Beyond the Appraisal Framework: Evaluation of Can and May in Introductions and Conclusions to Computing Research Articles
A1 Quintana Toledo, Elena
A1 Sánchez Cuervo, Margarita Esther
K1 Appraisal, evaluation, modality, evidentiality, epistemic, research article
AB This paper attempts to analyse the presence of the modal auxiliaries can and may as markers of authorial evaluation in a corpus of introductions and conclusions to computing research articles. Bearing in mind the semantic familiarity of these two modals, we start from Martin and White’s Appraisal framework, whose focus is on the interpersonal in language, the subjective presence of authors in their texts, and the stances they take both towards those texts and their readers. In particular, we extend Martin and White’s notions on epistemic modality and evidentiality, which they interpret from a co-textual and contextual point of view, and use Alonso-Almeida’s views on epistemicity as a pragmatic eff ect of evidentialstrategies. An important conclusion points at functional variation of epistemic and evidential readings in these two sections of research articles, with a predominant occurrence of epistemic attributions in introductions and evidential interpretations in conclusions. This result is in consonance with the type of genre selected and its authors’ aims.
PB Universidad de La Laguna. Servicio de Publicaciones
SN e-2530-8335
YR 2012
FD 2012
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 25-abr-2024