“Maybe, but probably not”: A cross-disciplinary study of negation in Three Minute Thesis presentations

IF 3.2 1区 文学 Q1 LINGUISTICS
Shuyi Amelia Sun , Feng Kevin Jiang , Yanhua Liu
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Abstract

Three Minute Thesis (3MT) presentations have received global popularity, which develop the discursive competence of postgraduate students to communicate their disciplinary research to a wide audience. Despite increased research into aspects of 3MT presentations, little is known about how student presenters react to the audience's knowledge base and recognize the possibility of rejecting their arguments. Therefore, this study focuses on the use of negation in 3MT presentations, suggesting how presenters introduce an alternative positive position into the dialogue, and hence acknowledging it, so as to reject it. We explored the frequencies, forms, and functions of negation at the discourse-semantic level with other appraisal resources in a corpus of 124 3MT presentations across hard and soft disciplines. Our results revealed that not, no, and negative contractions were the most frequent, and notably preferred by soft-disciplinary speakers. We also identified intriguing cross-disciplinary variations in the way negation was used alongside pronounce resources that expressed explicit authorial emphases to co-articulate the rhetorical effect in discourse. Pedagogical implications are raised as to the strengthening of students' rhetorical awareness of linguistic resources to achieve effective academic presentations and wide communication of disciplinary knowledge.

"也许是,但可能不是":对 "三分钟论文 "中否定的跨学科研究
三分钟论文(3MT)演讲在全球广受欢迎,它培养了研究生向广大听众传达其学科研究成果的话语能力。尽管对 3MT 演讲各个方面的研究越来越多,但人们对演讲者如何对听众的知识基础做出反应,以及如何认识到听众拒绝其论点的可能性知之甚少。因此,本研究侧重于 3MT 演讲中否定的使用,提示演讲者如何在对话中引入另一种积极的立场,从而承认它,进而拒绝它。我们在一个由 124 个 3MT 演讲组成的语料库中探讨了否定在话语语义层面的频率、形式和功能,以及其他评价资源,这些语料跨越了硬学科和软学科。我们的研究结果表明,not、no 和否定缩略词的使用频率最高,而且明显受到软学科发言者的青睐。我们还发现,否定词与发音资源一起使用的方式存在着有趣的跨学科差异,这些资源表达了作者在话语中共同阐明修辞效果的明确强调。这对加强学生对语言资源的修辞意识,以实现有效的学术演讲和学科知识的广泛传播具有教学意义。
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来源期刊
CiteScore
5.70
自引率
8.00%
发文量
41
审稿时长
62 days
期刊介绍: English For Specific Purposes is an international peer-reviewed journal that welcomes submissions from across the world. Authors are encouraged to submit articles and research/discussion notes on topics relevant to the teaching and learning of discourse for specific communities: academic, occupational, or otherwise specialized. Topics such as the following may be treated from the perspective of English for specific purposes: second language acquisition in specialized contexts, needs assessment, curriculum development and evaluation, materials preparation, discourse analysis, descriptions of specialized varieties of English.
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