“我们发现……”改变研究性写作中的认知定位模式。

IF 2.9 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Frontiers in Psychology Pub Date : 2025-09-26 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1634848

Yanfang Yang, Xuan Guo

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引言：认知定位是指作者对命题的真实性的承诺，以及对其对读者的潜在影响的评估。尽管它很重要，但很少有人注意到，随着时间的推移，作家是如何跨学科做出认知判断的。方法：借鉴Hyland和Zou的对冲和助推分类，我们分析了240篇来自教育、历史、机械工程和物理学的研究文章，涵盖了三个时期（1960年、1990年和2020年）。结果：我们的研究结果表明，随着时间的推移，所有四个学科的认知定位都显著下降，作者越来越倾向于减少使用认知标记，以追求客观、基于数据和科学的风格。讨论：这些结果表明研究写作实践的学科转变，并对提高学生和新手学术作家对不断变化的社会塑造的不断发展的知识话语的意识具有重要意义。

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"We find that…" changing patterns of epistemic positioning in research writing.

Introduction: Epistemic positioning refers to the writer's commitment to the truth of a proposition and assessment of its potential impact on readers. Despite its importance, little attention has been paid to how writers make epistemic judgments across disciplines over time.

Methods: Drawing on Hyland and Zou's taxonomies of hedges and boosters, we analyzed 240 research articles from education, history, mechanical engineering, and physics, covering three periods (1960, 1990, and 2020).

Results: Our findings show that epistemic positioning has significantly decreased across all four disciplines over time, with writers increasingly preferring less use of epistemic markers in pursuit of an objective, data-based, and scientific style.

Discussion: These results suggest a disciplinary shift in research writing practices and have important implications for raising students' and novice academic writers' awareness of evolving knowledge discourses shaped by changing societies.

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Frontiers in Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

CiteScore

5.30

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13.20%

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7396

审稿时长

14 weeks

期刊介绍： Frontiers in Psychology is the largest journal in its field, publishing rigorously peer-reviewed research across the psychological sciences, from clinical research to cognitive science, from perception to consciousness, from imaging studies to human factors, and from animal cognition to social psychology. Field Chief Editor Axel Cleeremans at the Free University of Brussels is supported by an outstanding Editorial Board of international researchers. This multidisciplinary open-access journal is at the forefront of disseminating and communicating scientific knowledge and impactful discoveries to researchers, academics, clinicians and the public worldwide. The journal publishes the best research across the entire field of psychology. Today, psychological science is becoming increasingly important at all levels of society, from the treatment of clinical disorders to our basic understanding of how the mind works. It is highly interdisciplinary, borrowing questions from philosophy, methods from neuroscience and insights from clinical practice - all in the goal of furthering our grasp of human nature and society, as well as our ability to develop new intervention methods.