Naslov
Verbs of visual perception as evidentials in research article texts in English and Croatian

Autori
Bašić, Ivana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, ostalo

Knjiga
Academic Writing from Cross-Cultural Perspectives: Exploring the Synergies and Interactions

Urednik/ci
Pisanski Peterlin, Agnes ; Mikolič Južnič, Tamara

Izdavač
Ljubljana University Press

Grad
Ljubljana

Godina
2020

Raspon stranica
196-216

ISBN
978-961-060309-2

ISSN
2335-335X

Ključne riječi
verbs of visual perception, evidential rhetorical strategies, research article texts

Sažetak
This paper analyses the use of verbs of visual perception in research articles in English and Croatian, claiming that in academic discourse these verbs are used as functional evidentials. The term evidentiality is used in the meaning of a broad cognitive category that reflects natural epistemology. As natural epis¬temology is based on assessing evidence, we assume that the prominence of verbs of visual perception in research articles is pragmatically motivated by the wish to make the claims more reliable, reflecting the fact that the acquisition of knowledge in research begins with observing and seeing, on the basis of which we make inferences. An analysis of evidential rhetorical strategies is conducted on a corpus of 95 original research articles in English and 70 in Croatian in nine disciplines, and it is found that the typical syntactic frames in which verbs of visual perception are used in research article texts in both languages and all the disciplines analysed can be considered as conventionalized rhetorical de¬vices used to ensure the acceptance of the claims made in the text.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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