Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: There are sets of grammatical stance markers that are morphologically and semantically related, but that differ with regard to their syntactic realization (e.g.,importantly,it is important thatandthe importance of). Little attention has, however, been paid to how these pattern across registers. This study examines eleven such sets across five registers in apprentice and expert production to investigate which register(s) the apprentice writers’ use is closest to and what that can tell us about their adherence to academic norms. The results show that there is a cline from thea priorimore formal registers to the less formal registers for the stance markers investigated. When the apprentice writers’ usage was mapped onto this cline, it became clear that their usage diverged slightly from that of the academic experts, thus indicating a lack of register awareness. Yet, very little evidence was found to support previous claims of the ‘spoken-like’ nature of learner writing.
Source: Register Studies
DOI: 10.1075/rs.18009.lar
Author: Tove Larsson
Institutions: Uppsala University, UCLouvain
Language: English
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Funder: Uppsala Universitet
OpenAlex ID: W2975622951