A Cross-Paradigmatic Analysis of Grammatical Stance Marking in Applied Linguistics
The 7th International English for Specific Purposes Conference, Ankara, Türkiye, 6 - 07 Kasım 2026, ss.53, (Özet Bildiri)
- Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Özet Bildiri
- Basıldığı Şehir: Ankara
- Basıldığı Ülke: Türkiye
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.53
- TED Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Not only are research paradigms key to research design, but they also greatly influence research writing. While recent corpus research points to marked lexicogrammatical differences between research paradigms, less is known about paradigm-specific grammatical stance markers. Therefore, this study investigates how the use of stance complement that-clauses varies in qualitative and quantitative research articles in applied linguistics. A corpus of 192 applied linguistics research articles published in four leading journals in the field between 2020 and 2025 was analyzed using Biber’s (2004) framework of nouns, verbs, and adjectives immediately followed by that-clauses. Frequency, distribution, and semantic functions of the clauses were quantitatively and qualitatively examined.
The findings reveal clear differences between the paradigms in terms of how stance is expressed. Quantitative articles showed significantly higher frequencies of certainty verbs and likelihood verbs, with the most notable difference observed for likelihood verbs. This was especially apparent in the use of show and find for expressing certainty and indicate for likelihood. A comparable pattern was also found with adjectives, with likelihood adjectives appearing significantly more frequently in quantitative articles, specifically possible and likely. By contrast, the distributions of the noun-based stance categories and the markers of attitude and evaluation did not show any significant differences across paradigms. These results suggest that research paradigms affect both the methodological choices made and the grammatical and lexical means by which information is presented.