This review of the literature presents an overview of the last 50 years of research on
acknowledgments in the context of scholarly communication. Through qualitative coding and …

This paper builds on our recent work (Anderson et al., 2020; Anderson & Okuda, 2019;
Anderson et al., 2021) investigating macrostructural variation in doctoral dissertations. Two …

Stance markers are critical linguistic devices for writers to convey their personal attitudes,
judgments or assessments about the proposition of certain messages. Following Hyland's …

This article describes a large-scale analysis of dissertation macrostructures in the Faculties
of Education at five major Canadian research universities. We draw on van Dijk (1980) and …

To communicate with other experts in a specific field as well as sharing knowledge in the
academic world, researchers might need to publish their research articles (RAs) in high …

The past few decades have witnessed an upsurge of scholarly interest in the generic
descriptions of PhD theses following Swales' seminal Genre Analysis. Fitted within the …

In this study, we investigate hedges, boosters and self-mentions as main expressions of
epistemic positioning and how much they are projected by explicit authorial presence in the …

Previous research on the INTRODUCTORY IT PATTERN unveiled various lexical and
grammatical aspects of its use as a grammatical stance device, including the range of the …

Titles play a key role in doctoral dissertations and research articles. However, the generic
and disciplinary features of doctoral dissertation titles have received limited attention. In this …

Mirroring public ideologies and value systems in legislative discourse, stance not only
functions as a powerful instrument for legislators to balance legal values and stakeholders' …