Krystyna warchał Certainty and doubt in academic discourse: epistemic modality markers in english and polish linguistics articles

Tytuł Certainty and doubt in academic discourse: Epistemic modality markers in English and Polish linguistics articles Autor Krystyna Warchał Język angielski Wydawnictwo Uniwersytet Śląski ISBN 978-83-8012-456-1 seria Prace Naukowe UŚ; Językoznawstwo Neofilologiczne Rok wydania 2015 Katowice Wydanie 1 liczba stron 314 Format pdf Spis treści Contents Introduction / 7 1. Academic discourse and its rhetoric / 11 1.1 Academic discourse community: its genres and values / 15 1.2 The cultural factor in academic communication / 18 1.3 English academic discourse: Previous studies / 22 1.3.1 Academic register(s) / 22 1.3.2 Academic genres / 26 1.3.3 Principal themes / 32 1.3.4 English as an academic lingua franca / 41 1.4 Polish academic discourse: Previous studies / 44 1.5 Concluding remarks / 50 2. Linguistic modality / 53 2.1 Approaches and concepts / 53 2.1.1 Sentential, sub-sentential and discourse modality / 54 2.1.2 Modality and mood / 55 2.1.3 Modality and the propositional content / 57 2.1.4 Modality and subjectivity / 59 2.1.5 Modality and the realis/irrealis distinction / 63 2.1.6 Modality and relevance / 67 2.2 Modal meanings and values / 71 2.2.1 The epistemic/deontic distinction and related modal subdomains / 71 2.2.2 The root/epistemic distinction / 74 2.2.3 Epistemicity, speaker-orientedness, and agent-orientedness / 79 2.2.4 Epistemicity and evidentiality / 83 2.2.5 Modal scales / 88 2.3 Epistemic modality markers / 92 2.3.1 Epistemic markers in English / 92 2.3.2 Epistemic markers in Polish / 99 2.4 Modality in academic discourse: Previous studies / 111 2.5 Concluding remarks / 120 3. The project / 123 3.1 Aims / 123 3.2 Corpus description / 125 3.3 The analysis / 127 4. Markers of (un)certainty in English and Polish linguistics articles / 133 4.1 High-value markers / 133 4.1.1 English / 133 4.1.2 Polish / 149 4.1.3 Discussion / 160 4.2 Middle-value markers / 166 4.2.1 English / 166 4.2.2 Polish / 187 4.2.3 Discussion / 205 4.3 Low-value markers / 213 4.3.1 English / 213 4.3.2 Polish / 233 4.3.3 Discussion / 246 5. Conclusions / 255 References / 265 Index of names / 291 Index of modality markers / 297 Streszczenie / 301 Zusammenfassung / 303 List of tables / 305 List of figures / 309