Certainty and Doubt in Academic Discourse: Epistemic Modality Markers in English and Polish Linguistics Articles
Fecha:
2018Tipo de Ítem:
reviewDirección web:
http://www.aelfe.org/?s=revista&veure=36
Resumen:
Reseña de: Certainty and Doubt in Academic Discourse: Epistemic Modality Markers in English and Polish Linguistics Articles, de Krystyna Warchal. Por Mercedes Querol Julián. Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląkiego, 2015. 311 pages. ISBN:978-83-8012-455-4
Descripción:
Certainty and Doubt in Academic Discourse sets out to provide a close and careful
examination of the use of modality in peer-reviewed journal articles in the
field of applied linguistics. The subtitle Epistemic Modality Markers in English
and Polish Linguistics Articles hints at the cross-linguistic and cross-cultural
analysis of the semantic category of epistemicity in this research genre in
English and Polish. The volume successfully accomplishes the goals
established in the Introduction. It sheds some light on the differences and
similarities between English and Polish articles regarding: the frequency of
use and categories of epistemic markers, the epistemic modal values, and the
distribution of markers in article sections.
