Beyond mere facts: Epistemic profiles of conclusions to English- and Polish-language linguistics articles

Expressions of epistemic stance in academic discourse reflect not only the authors’ commitment to truth what is being said, but also their awareness other members community, current thinking within discipline, and established patterns interaction. Stance-taking strongly embedded culture language, as demonstrated numerous studies that focus on L2 English (e.g. Hinkel 2002; Dontcheva-Navratilova 2018; Wu Paltridge 2021) and, less often, communication various linguistic contexts Perez-Llantada 2010). This paper purues this latter line inquiry proposes a contrastive analysis markers conclusions English- Polish-language linguistics articles an attempt identify profiles. Epistemic profile refers here combination two features: modal value (Halliday 1985/1994) which marked more frequently than others across text or fragment, concurrence modality with specific rhetorical moves (Swales 1990; Yang Allison 2003). Thus, it provides information about modalization type content tends be modalized. The was based two-part corpus 400 articles, 200 English-language drawn from international databases published recognized national journals. In first stage, frequencies sub-corpora were calculated (Scott 2008) statistical applied determine whether differences significant. second 50 concluding sections each sub-corpus manually annotated for tended occur moves. findings show statistically significant high- low-value tendency offer interpretive content.