• L. Dobakhti

  Author

This study investigates the use of attitude markers in qualitative and
quantitative research articles by the use of corpus and genre analysis. In the first part
of the study, the Discussion sections of 100 qualitative and 100 quantitative research
articles published in five high impact journals from 2003-2009 in the field of Applied
Linguistics were analysysed using WordPilot2002. The analysis showed that attitude
markers appeared with similar frequency in both sub-corpora. Categorizing the
attitude markers revealed that the two main categories used were adverbs and
adjectives. In the second part, in order to identify in which parts of the Discussion
section each of these stance features were clustered in, this feature was investigated in
various moves of the Discussion sections of 10 qualitative and 10 quantitative
research articles.The findings contribute to our understanding of research articles,
and also have implications for pedagogy regarding the writing instruction to ESP
students who are writing dissertations and research papers.

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