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{"title":"Authorial and Professional Identities in Sports Law Journal Articles","authors":"M. Menghini","doi":"10.6092/LEF_27_P115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/LEF_27_P115","url":null,"abstract":"Through this first analysis we can possibly detect what principles of linguistics and language learning are important for this highly specific community of practise, keeping in mind the trend of modern times from local communities to global societies. By means of an international corpus of sports law journal articles, we intend to widen our reflection to an international dimension taking into account the training of sports lawyers/arbitrators in different countries.","PeriodicalId":40434,"journal":{"name":"Linguistica e Filologia","volume":"27 1","pages":"115-135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71267746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gender identity and authority in academic book reviews: an analysis of metadiscourse across disciplines","authors":"L. D’Angelo","doi":"10.6092/LEF_27_P205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/LEF_27_P205","url":null,"abstract":"This paper seeks to further the existing knowledge of gender variation in academic discourse by analysing book reviews by male and female authors, within the disciplines of Applied Linguistics, Economics, Legal Studies and Medicine. While research in academic discourse has established that academic writing is not uniform, but varies greatly depending on disciplinary conventions, the cultural background and the professional status and experience of writers (Crammond 1998; Hyland 2000; Hyland / Bondi 2006; Mauranen 1993; Silver 2006), the influence of gender in academic writing is still largely unexplored. Although some studies have highlighted the stylistic and interactional differences between men and women when it comes to writing (Kirsch 1993, Tannen 1994, Herring et al. 1995), few have investigated the potential influence of gender in academic discourse by considering gender together with disciplinary cultures in the study of academic interactions (Tse / Hyland 2006). Furthermore, differences in writing styles and author stances between genders has seldom been discussed taking into consideration the age, experience and authority of the writer in the field. In this paper I will thus analyse the use of interactive resources (transitions, frame markers, endophoric markers, evidentials, code glosses) as well as interactional resources (hedges, boosters, attitude markers, engagement markers, self mentions) of male and female reviewers in four different disciplines, taking into consideration possible variants due to age, experience and authority in the field. The material used for these analyses will be taken from four subcorpora of CADIS (Corpus of Academic Discourse), comprising 400 Book Reviews written in English by authors of different genders.","PeriodicalId":40434,"journal":{"name":"Linguistica e Filologia","volume":"27 1","pages":"205-221"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71267895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Claiming Authority: Modals of Obligation and Necessity in Academic Written English. The Case of SHOULD","authors":"Krystyna Warchał","doi":"10.6092/LEF_27_P21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/LEF_27_P21","url":null,"abstract":"The main concern of this paper is the use of the modal auxiliary SHOULD as a device for establishing the writer’s authority and managing the interaction with the reader of an academic text. The analysis is based on a corpus of 200 electronically available research articles published in the years 2001-2006 in five internationally recognised linguistics-related journals. Instances of SHOULD are classified according to their meaning as root, epistemic, quasi-subjunctive or hypothetical. Root SHOULD is classified as deontic or dynamic; epistemic SHOULD is identified as epistemic proper, inferred evidential or quotative evidential; quasi-subjunctive uses are examined for the possibility of root interpretation; and hypothetical SHOULD is studied for occurrences in subordinate clauses of condition and for uses with verbs of thinking and speaking. The findings indicate that the modal auxiliary SHOULD performs a variety of functions in academic discourse, from exhortation emphasising the speaker’s authority, impersonal directives relieving the speaker from the responsibility for issuing a command and suggestions put forward for consideration, through assessments of probability, to politeness strategies and attention-capturing devices.","PeriodicalId":40434,"journal":{"name":"Linguistica e Filologia","volume":"27 1","pages":"21-37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71267917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unmitigated Claims in the Language of Economics Ras","authors":"U. Belotti","doi":"10.6092/LEF_27_P77","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/LEF_27_P77","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports on a study of unmitigated claims in the language of economics RAs written by Italian scholars and published in four journals between 1996 and 2006. Preliminary findings reveal that the 40 RAs taken into considerations contain a remarkable, and to some extent unexpected, number of unmitigated claims. It is also suggested that these claims can be used to clearly identify tensions in individual / collective values. It is further argued that unmitigated claims constitute a powerful tool with which authors establish identity.","PeriodicalId":40434,"journal":{"name":"Linguistica e Filologia","volume":"27 1","pages":"77-92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71268301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ancora a proposito dell’uso dei “prenomi” polacchi","authors":"A. Kreisberg","doi":"10.6092/LEF_26_P31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/LEF_26_P31","url":null,"abstract":"The paper takes up the theme of the mandatory (or almost mandatory) use of concrete indicators of definiteness/indefiniteness in a text translated from Italian into Polish, which did not grammaticalise it, in correspondence to the articles in the original text. As far as the indefinite pronouns pewien ‘certain’ and jakiś ‘some’ are concerned, it proposes to demonstrate that their more or less mandatory use depends, rather than on the thematic/rhematic structure of the utterance and the semantic role of the nominal, on the semantics of the NP itself, and on the relationship between the referent and its class, considered as more or less homogeneous. The zero determiner is admissible only with components of classes conceived as homogeneous, whereas the indefinite “prenoun” is a trace of the retrieval of an element inside a heterogeneous class. In the absence of such an indicator, the retrieval is considered as assumed, and this leads to interpret the noun as a definite description. For what concerns the demonstrative pronoun ten (and its synonym ow), the mandatoriness of its use is limited to the textual anaphora stricto sensu, whereas a situational one makes the utterance more colloquial.","PeriodicalId":40434,"journal":{"name":"Linguistica e Filologia","volume":"26 1","pages":"31-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71267730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Good Me or the Bad Me? Identity and Evaluation in Research Article Abstracts","authors":"M. Venuti, A. M. Cava","doi":"10.6092/LEF_27_P139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/LEF_27_P139","url":null,"abstract":"s therefore play various roles: first they help the reader to ascertain the paper’s purpose, then they provide the reader with a preliminary overview of the research and, in some cases, may help to recall its basic content. Publishing, as observed by Swales (1990), is a way to join a discourse community, so that authors need to persuade their audience of what they say, to press their point of view by means of an articulate, competent use of language. The standard style of academic writing suggests that it should be objective not attitudinal, and that the text should be entirely free of personal judgements. This, however, does not happen very often because one of the chief functions of scientific research articles is to persuade the reader of the validity of the writer’s claims, and in order to accomplish this purpose, the work of the writers and of other researchers is constantly evaluated along the text distribution (Hunston 1993, 1994). Academic writing is as rhetorical as any other type of discourse, no matter how technical and apparently detached it might appear, as its discourse is always designed to convince readers of the reliability of its claims. Hunston therefore rejects the widespread idea that “evaluation is personal and scientific writing impersonal” (1983: 58). Evaluation is not the only key feature of RAAs, however; a crucial role may also be played by identity. Hyland (2000: 63) states that RAAs are “a rich source of interactional features that allow us to see how individuals work to position themselves within their communities”. Other studies (e.g. Myers 1990) have shown that before a research paper is published, a great deal of negotiation on the final version to be published goes on between authors, editors and referees. Researchers have to argue their case in front of the bar of the scientific community before their work can be taken up and accepted. Myers (1985) argues that the tension inherent in the publication of any research article makes negotiation between the writer and the potential audience essential: the researcher tries to show that s/he deserves credit for something new, while on the other hand the editors try to relate the article’s claims to a body of existing knowledge. Thus the focus shifts from the individual researcher to the entire research community, from authorial identity to 141 A.M. Cava / M. Venuti, The Good Me or the Bad Me? Identity and Evaluation in Research Article Abstracts","PeriodicalId":40434,"journal":{"name":"Linguistica e Filologia","volume":"27 1","pages":"139-156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71267786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sull’articolo determinativo sloveno","authors":"Helena Bažec","doi":"10.6092/LEF_26_P235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/LEF_26_P235","url":null,"abstract":"Among the different uses shared by articles in other languages which have already grammaticalized this part of speech, one in particular should be emphasized. It is the indefinite use, where the colloquial definite article can be preceded by an indefinite modifier such as an indefinite article. Languages that have been influencing the Slovene language do not share this particular use, therefore this leads us to the conclusion that the Slovenian article has chosen an independent course and its development has not been influenced by other languages.","PeriodicalId":40434,"journal":{"name":"Linguistica e Filologia","volume":"26 1","pages":"235-258"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71267637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tempo e aspetto nei preteriti dello Skazanie o Drakule voevode","authors":"Luisa Ruvoletto","doi":"10.6092/LEF_26_P187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/LEF_26_P187","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of the present contribution is to analyse the use of the past tenses of the indicative mood in the Old Russian Skazanie o Drakule voevode (end of XV century). The subject of my analysis is the relationship between the categories of aspect and tense in the aorist, imperfect and perfect tenses found in the text. The aorist forms concern mostly prefixed verbs without imperfective thematic suffix. The imperfect forms concern mainly verbs whose theme is ‘primary’, unprefixed, ‘bi-aspectual’, or prefixed suffixed verbs. Finally the perfect forms present more ‘tense-aspect’ meanings, depending on whether the copula is expressed or omitted, on whether the verbal theme is prefixed or unprefixed. Besides, a particular aspectual value, obscefakticeskoe ‘generic-factual’, of certain perfect forms can be noticed: the forms of the unprefixed verbs (with or without copula) either of the imperfective or of the ‘bi-aspectual’ kind, and the forms of the perfective prefixed verbs (without copula), which in the text have an ‘aoristic’ value. In this particular aspectual value of the perfect we can see the premises of its evolution towards the modern form of the past tense in the context of the binary opposition PF:IPF.","PeriodicalId":40434,"journal":{"name":"Linguistica e Filologia","volume":"205 1","pages":"187-205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71267533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Il vocativo nelle lingue slave: un quadro articolato","authors":"Andrea Trovesi","doi":"10.6092/LEF_26_P207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/LEF_26_P207","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents a survey of the state of conservation of the vocative case and its morphological markers in standard Slavic languages. It gives an account of the simplifications that have occurred at the paradigmatic level and outlines the principles underlying the replacement of the vocative with the nominative – or basic form – in the languages where both cases are found as alternative or concurrent strategies. In this context, the article shows a type specialization of vocative forms to express the speaker’s personal relation to the receiver and, at the same time, an increasingly frequent usage of the nominative/basic form as an actual form of call/appeal. Finally, by listing the different groups of Slavic languages in an order according to their degree of formal and functional maintenance of the vocative, a model for a degrammaticalization process is proposed, valid for all Slavic languages: conservation > alteration > contraction > elimination.","PeriodicalId":40434,"journal":{"name":"Linguistica e Filologia","volume":"1 1","pages":"207-234"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71267554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“It can be assumed that, if our conceptual model is valid, then…”: The Construction of Multiple Identities in Economics vs. Marketing","authors":"Donatella Malavasi, D. Mazzi","doi":"10.6092/LEF_27_P157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/LEF_27_P157","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the findings of a comparative study of identity within the closely related disciplines of economics and marketing. On the basis of a multi-disciplinary corpus of authentic research articles, the analysis is intended to shed light on the main linguistic tools associated with three dimensions of identity, i.e. professional, academic and disciplinary (Crawford Camiciottoli 2007). The quantitative and qualitative investigation of the collocational context of keywords expressing identity points to a substantial disciplinary homogeneity in the construction of the respective professional and academic profiles, since both economists and marketing scholars present themselves as credible arguers who both master the technicalities of the field and seek a dialogic rapport with the audience. By contrast, corpus evidence highlights a clear-cut epistemological divide in terms of disciplinary identity. Data suggest that marketing is constantly characterised by references to the empirical and experimental nature of the discipline, whereas economics contains references to hypothetical reasoning as a constitutive factor of disciplinary culture.","PeriodicalId":40434,"journal":{"name":"Linguistica e Filologia","volume":"27 1","pages":"157-179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71267854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}