Abstract
Stance refers to attitude, feelings, judgment or commitment of a speaker towards a proposition. A speaker employs certain linguistics features to express his stance including hedges, boosters, self-mentions and attitude markers. This research aims at analyzing stance of Indonesian writers in social and hard science journal articles written in English by examining the use of linguistic features employed as stance markers. The research result shows that the writers of social science articles use more stance marker compares to those of hard science articles. Indonesian writers maintain the objectivity of academic writing as there was very limited use of self-mentions in the articles. The stance markers used by Indonesian writers represent the positive, negative or neutral type of stance.
Highlights
Stance refers to “lexical or grammatical expression on attitude, feelings, appreciation, or commitment towards content of a proposition (Biber & Finegan, 1998)
This research is focused on the Introduction and Literature Review parts of journal articles based on the reason that these are parts that the writers review the previous research by using stance markers
The first section discusses the frequency of hedges in social science and hard science article, the second part discusses frequency of boosters in social science and hard science article, the third part discusses frequency of self-mentions in social and hard science article, and the last part discusses the frequency of attitude markers in the data as well as analyzing the tone of stance markers
Summary
Stance refers to “lexical or grammatical expression on attitude, feelings, appreciation, or commitment towards content of a proposition (Biber & Finegan, 1998). According to this definition, the writers’ stance can be observed through expressions selected in his statements. The writers’ stance can be observed through expressions selected in his statements He can show agreement or disagreement towards a topic by employing one linguistic feature, such as ‘agrees to’ or ‘on the opposite of’. The writers’ stances are generally expressed clearer in written sources, including news articles or autobiographies. In these sources, stance markers can be observed through selected linguistic features
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