Self-denigration in academic discourse

IF 0.6 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Functions of Language Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI:10.1075/fol.22021.may

N. Mayahi, A. Jalilifar

引用次数: 1

Abstract

Using the methodology of Grounded Theory, this study aims to identify and analyze the perceptions and functions of self-denigration in dissertation defenses. The data comprises transcripts of two focus group discussions and the disputation sections of a corpus of 53 applied linguistics doctoral defense sessions gathered from 14 Iranian state universities between 2019 and 2021. The findings suggest that self-denigration depends to a great extent on the role of the participants in a disputation, and it is used before or after a criticism or a response to criticism. The analysis of the data revealed that self-denigration as a sign of respectfulness and modesty in a defense contributes to social decorum, diffidence, coercive self-deprecation, contrived modesty, or flamboyance. This study highlights the importance of self-denigration in the oral academic discourse of EFL defense sessions and has pedagogical implications for oral academic literacy practices.

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学术话语中的自我诋毁

本研究采用扎根理论的方法，旨在识别和分析自我诋毁在论文答辩中的感知和作用。这些数据包括2019年至2021年间从14所伊朗国立大学收集的53次应用语言学博士答辩的两次焦点小组讨论的记录和争议部分。研究结果表明，自我诋毁在很大程度上取决于争议参与者的角色，它在批评或对批评的回应之前或之后使用。对数据的分析表明，自我诋毁作为辩护中尊重和谦逊的标志，会导致社交礼仪、缺乏自信、强制性的自我贬低、人为的谦逊或浮夸。本研究强调了自我诋毁在英语口语答辩中的重要性，并对口语学术素养实践具有教学意义。

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期刊介绍： Functions of Language is an international journal of linguistics which explores the functionalist perspective on the organisation and use of natural language. It encourages the interplay of theory and description, and provides space for the detailed analysis, qualitative or quantitative, of linguistic data from a broad range of languages. Its scope is broad, covering such matters as prosodic phenomena in phonology, the clause in its communicative context, and regularities of pragmatics, conversation and discourse, as well as the interaction between the various levels of analysis. The overall purpose is to contribute to our understanding of how the use of languages in speech and writing has impacted, and continues to impact, upon the structure of those languages.