Skip Navigation

Applied Linguistics 1991 12(4):365-382; doi:10.1093/applin/12.4.365
© 1991 by Oxford University Press
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Search for citing articles in:
ISI Web of Science (30)
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by THOMPSON, G.
Right arrow Articles by YIYUN, Y.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

Articles

Evaluation in the Reporting Verbs Used in Academic Papers

GEOFF THOMPSON and YE YIYUN

University of Liverpool
Tongji University Shanghai

This paper discusses the results of a project to identify the kinds of verbs used in citations in academic papers, as a basis for developing teaching materials for non-native-speaker students who need to read or write academic papers. Categories are suggested for classifying the verbs both in terms of their denotation and of their evaluative potential, in order to illuminate the role that they play in the evaluation that their presence entails. The ways in which denotation and evaluative potential interact and some of the effects of the immediate context (for example, negation) are examined. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which the writer commits herself to or detaches herself from the reported proposition to varying degrees. Finally, an idealized model of the ‘layers of report’ that may be involved in citations is presented as a means of drawing together the various choices available. The model mayserve as a pedagogic image to help the students in understanding or choosing reporting verbs and, beyond that, in interpreting or conveying evaluation in academic papers.


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Discourse StudiesHome page
J. M. de Oliveira and A. S. Pagano
The research article and the science popularization article: a probabilistic functional grammar perspective on direct discourse representation
Discourse Studies, October 1, 2006; 8(5): 627 - 646.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Applied LinguisticsHome page
M. Charles
The Construction of Stance in Reporting Clauses: A Cross-disciplinary Study of Theses
Applied Linguistics, September 1, 2006; 27(3): 492 - 518.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]


Disclaimer:
Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.