Abstract
Writers use intensity markers as one of strategies in order to negotiate their claims and to make their writings persuasive and credible. This study is an attempt to examine the type, frequency, and functions of intensity markers in research articles of two disciplines of Applied Linguistics and Electrical Engineering by analyzing surface linguistic features. Based on a corpus of forty research articles, the overall rhetorical and categorical distribution of intensity markers were calculated across two rhetorical sections of Abstract and Conclusion of research articles. The results indicates that the overall distribution of intensity markers in Applied Linguistics articles is higher than Electrical Engineering ones. These findings may have some implications for the teaching of academic writing to EFL students.
Highlights
Language can be studied from different perspectives
The results indicates that the overall distribution of intensity markers in Applied Linguistics articles is higher than Electrical Engineering ones
The data for this study consists of forty research articles, twenty research articles belonging to Applied Linguistics (AL ) and twenty research articles belonging to Electrical Engineering (EE )
Summary
Language can be studied from different perspectives. Several classifications of language functions were proposed, Halliday (1985) considered three main functions of language. Ideational function means language functioning as a means of conveying and interpreting experience of the world. According to Halliday (1983), the ideational function refers to what is called “cognitive meaning” or propositional content of sentence. Interpersonal function means language functioning as an expression of one’s attitude and influence upon the attitude and behavior of the hearer. The last function is textual function which means language functioning as means of constructing a text. The textual function refers to the way in which the grammatical and intonational structure of sentences or utterances relate them to one another in continuous text and to the situation in which they are used
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