Keywords
reporting verb
research article
academic prose
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Abstract
While there is considerable research on the ways in which authors of English academic texts refer to the existing literature, especially in research articles, scholarly interest in the linguistic patterns of academic citation in Polish remains very limited. Therefore, the present study examines how previous literature is reported in Polish research articles representing five disciplines classified as “soft” sciences, i.e. psychology, philosophy, economics, linguistics and literary studies. Focusing on both formal and semantic aspects of references to previous work, the present study uses a corpus of 50 research articles from 10 academic journals to demonstrate substantial cross-disciplinary variation, some of which accords with the existing evidence that has been marshalled in this regard for English. The findings confirm the existence of differing discoursal conventions used to construct knowledge and establish scholarly credibility in different academic disciplines.
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