Drawing on a corpus of 20 research articles from Anglo-American and Italian journals in the same disciplinary area, this paper investigates the linguistic and pragmatic features underlying the more or less explicit criticism targeting other authors and their claims. Special attention will be given to the rhetorical strategies that convey negative evaluative acts, whose realisations may reflect both the genre and the different interpersonal understanding of the academic communities involved. The results point to interesting convergences/divergences between the two halves of the corpus and in the rhetorical and linguistic resources employed by English-speaking authors, as compared to their Italian colleagues.
Partendo da un corpus di 20 articoli pubblicati in riviste scientifiche anglosassoni e italiane del medesimo ambito disciplinare, il presente articolo prende in esame i tratti linguistici e pragmatici sottesi ai giudizi critici, più o meno espliciti, mossi agli autori di altri studi e alle loro argomentazioni. Particolare attenzione viene riservata alle strategie retoriche che veicolano tali giudizi, le cui realizzazioni sono riconducibili sia al genere testuale impiegato sia alla diversa sensibilità interpersonale delle comunità scientifiche interessate. I risultati dell’indagine evidenziano significative convergenze/divergenze tra le due parti del corpus e all’interno del repertorio retorico-linguistico utilizzato da studiosi di area anglofona piuttosto che italiana.
(2005). Negative evaluation in academic discourse. A comparison of English and Italian research articles [journal article - articolo]. In LINGUISTICA E FILOLOGIA. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10446/150
Negative evaluation in academic discourse. A comparison of English and Italian research articles
GIANNONI, Davide Simone
2005-01-01
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Drawing on a corpus of 20 research articles from Anglo-American and Italian journals in the same disciplinary area, this paper investigates the linguistic and pragmatic features underlying the more or less explicit criticism targeting other authors and their claims. Special attention will be given to the rhetorical strategies that convey negative evaluative acts, whose realisations may reflect both the genre and the different interpersonal understanding of the academic communities involved. The results point to interesting convergences/divergences between the two halves of the corpus and in the rhetorical and linguistic resources employed by English-speaking authors, as compared to their Italian colleagues.File | Dimensione del file | Formato | |
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