Evidential verbs in the genre of medical posters

A corpus-based analysis

Maurizio Gotti, Stefania Maci

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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
28 June 2022

Poster art; Semantics; Lexicography

Series: Linguistic Insights

This volume aims to provide information about and interpretations of the concept of evidentiality lexically realized with certain verbs and applied to the genre of medical posters. More specifically, issues relating to how knowledge is conveyed through language will be discussed and how evidence for such knowledge is linguistically transmitted in a set of specialised texts. This study uses some of the possibilities offered by electronic corpora in conjunction with concordance tools, which allow quantitative analysis. Thanks to this quantitative analysis, followed by a qualitative interpretation of the findings, we could detect the pragmatic function these evidential items have in contextual use, allowing us to see that evidentiality in medical discourse is intended in a slightly different way from general discourse.

By: Stefania Maci
Series edited by: Maurizio Gotti
Imprint: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: New edition
Volume: 291
Dimensions: Height: 225mm, Width: 150mm,
Weight: 766g
ISBN: 9783034345217
ISBN 10: 3034345216
Series: Linguistic Insights
Pages: 498
Publication Date: 28 June 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgements — Introduction — Setting the theoretical framework — Medical posters discourse — Methodological Approach(es)— Identifying evidential markers in a sample corpus — Expanding the list of evidential verbs — Distribution, Type of verbal evidentiality in the main corpus — Patterns of source attributions and forms of factual claims — Rhetorical function of evidential categories — Focusing on specific verbs — Concluding Remarks — References .

Stefania M. Maci is a full professor of English language and translation in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Communication at the University of Bergamo. She has completed her PhD in applied linguistics, Lancaster University, UK. She has been the local supervisor and coordinator of local, national and international research projects (on academic genres). Her research areas include pragmatics, discourse analysis and genre analysis with a corpus linguistics approach, with particular regards to specialised (academic, medical and tourism) discourses and their popularization.