Authorial Stance in English, Arabic and EFL Applied Linguistics Research: An Appraisal Study
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31436/asiatic.v14i1.1844Abstract
This study examines how academics from different sociocultural contexts use Attitude to project authorial stances that build convincing arguments and naturalize certain communities of shared values and interests. Specifically, the study investigates the use of the Appraisal resources, Affect, Judgment and Appreciation (Martin and White 42-69), in the introductions of Applied linguistics research papers that are written in English and Modern Standard Arabic by: (1) published English-speaking academics, (2) published Saudi academics and (3) Saudi EFL Master’s degree students. Results revealed that writers preferred different Attitude options leading to varying degrees of subjectivity in the texts. Cross-cultural contrasts also pertained to the nature of the entities and ideational fields of discourse that were appraised. Results also showed that the stance construed by the EFL writers did not reflect the exclusive influence of any of the two cultures involved, but represented an inter-genre with a blend of different features coexisting in the same text. The study has implications for EFL writers and for tertiary academic institutions. Explicit instruction of discipline-specific Attitude conventions is required to achieve rhetorically-effective arguments from the perspective of the target discourse community.
Downloads
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyrights of all materials published in Asiatic are held exclusively by the Journal and the respective author/s. Any reproduction of material from the journal without proper acknowledgement or prior permission will result in the infringement of intellectual property laws.