scholarly journals Hedging modal adverbs in Slovenian academic discourse

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-180
Author(s):  
Jakob Lenardič ◽  
Darja Fišer
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Extensive Discussion ◽  
Proficiency Levels ◽  
Academic Texts ◽  
Proficiency Level ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
The One ◽  
Modal Adverbs

This paper first presents a comparative analysis of modal adverbs in doctoral theses in the humanities and social sciences on the one hand, and in natural and technical sciences on the other from the 1.7-billion-token corpus of Slovenian academic texts KAS (Erjavec et al., 2019a). Using a randomized concordance analysis, we observe the epistemic and non-epistemic usage of the modal adverbs and show that epistemic adverbs are more characteristic of the humanities and social sciences theses. We also show that the non-epistemic dispositional meaning of possibility, which is most commonly used in natural and technical sciences theses, is not used as a hedging device. In the second part of the paper we compare the usage of a selected set of modals in bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral theses in order to chart how researchers’ approach to stance-taking changes at different proficiency levels in academic writing, showing that the observed increase in hedging devices in doctoral theses seems to be less a function of an increased proficiency level in academic writing as such and more the result of conceptual differences between undergraduate and postgraduate theses, only the latter of which are original research contributions with extensive discussion of the results.

scholarly journals Reading Strategies Used in Reading Academic Texts by Students of High and Intermediate Reading Proficiency Levels

K ta Kita ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-87
Author(s):  
Johan Setiawan ◽  
Nani Indrajani Tjitrakusuma
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Reading Strategies ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Reading Proficiency ◽  
Text Structure ◽  
English Department ◽  
Elaborative Interrogation ◽  
Proficiency Levels ◽  
Academic Texts ◽  
Proficiency Level

In this study, the reading strategies used by students of high and intermediate reading proficiency levels were qualitatively examined. Reading strategies are important factors that affect someone's reading proficiency. In the development of education, reading strategies are continuously carried out to facilitate the learning process and sharpen students' reading skills. The purpose of this study is to discover the reading strategies used by the English Department students with high and intermediate reading proficiency levels in reading academic texts. This study uses reading strategies theory by Grabe (2009) combined with the interview questions by Mokhtari and Reichard (2002) to examine the reading strategies of ten participants consisting of five people with high reading proficiency level and five other people with intermediate reading proficiency level. This study showed that students of high reading proficiency levels tend to use more reading strategies than students with intermediate reading proficiency level. The biggest difference is in the use of text-structure awareness and inferencing strategies. It indicates that the mastery of text structure is directly related to reading effectiveness. Without text structure awareness, other reading strategies such as summarizing, inferencing, and elaborative interrogation will be seriously disrupted. Keywords:  Reading Strategies, Academic Text, High Reading Proficiency Level, Intermediate Reading Proficiency Level

scholarly journals Portuguese Higher Education Graduates’ Views on Academic Writing

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Maria L. Cabral
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
English Language ◽  
First Language ◽  
Language Choices ◽  
Language Writing ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Portuguese Higher Education

This paper examines the language choices and the process of academic writing of a group of 35 Portuguese graduate students in the fields of humanities and social sciences with the aim of illustrating their language preferences, as well as the aspects they take into consideration while writing either in Portuguese or in English.Results of this study indicate that the participants prefer to write their papers in Portuguese, their first language, and that they use similar approaches when writing in both languages. However, findings also reveal they are concerned with slightly different process aspects when composing and revising their texts in Portuguese and in English. These differences seem to be associated with acquired discourse traditions in Portuguese language, as well as with the participants’ lower competence in English language writing.

Der kranke Mann im Golus

Aschkenas ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-195
Author(s):  
Andreas Kilcher
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
The One

Abstract Zionism is rooted in the programme for overcoming the Diaspora. The descriptions of this programme go hand in hand with an in-depth »diagnosis« of the sufferings of the Diaspora as a symptom of the ongoing animosity towards Jews and their persecution even, and particularly, in the age of emancipation. This cultural, social and political diagnosis was described in Zionism - and it is no coincidence that this happened mostly through physicians - as the medical and psychiatric pathologization of the »Jewish people’s body«. In this process of naturalization and scientification paradigms and methods of the contemporary humanities and social sciences were applied, including concepts as controversial as that of the »Jewish race«. The present analysis examines this medical account from two complementary perspectives: the medical verbalization of the political discourse of Zionism on the one hand (Leon Pinsker, Max Nordau, etc.), and the politicization of medicine on the other (Arthur Kahn, Felix Theilhaber, etc.).

Authoethnography in the study of football fan culture. Theoretical and methodological reflections by way of football rivarly research

Human Affairs ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 324-334
Author(s):  
Seweryn Dmowski ◽  
Piotr Załęski
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Fan Culture ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Entire Process ◽  
Research Concept ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences

Abstract The article reflects on the use of autoethnography in researching football fan culture. It identifies the benefits and challenges of using autoethnography as a strategy and a research method for understanding football fan culture. Despite numerous examples of the use of autoethnography in football research, including supporter studies, it has yet to be considered from a strictly theoretical perspective on the methodological dilemmas of the researcher–football fan. The article critically analyses the entire process of autoethnographic research, which led to the conceptualisation of a research project on perceptions of football competitions. This paper is the result of a clash between a junior scientist’s original research concept and a more experienced ethnographic researcher’s critical approach and reflects the discussion between them. The authors believe that the conclusions reached may be helpful for researchers in the field of humanities and social sciences considering using autoethnography in their research.

The Humanities and Social Sciences

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lutz Raphael
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Dynamic Change ◽  
Political Pluralism ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
German Nation ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
The One ◽  
New Research ◽  
New Democracy

For the humanities and social sciences, the Weimar Republic was a period of dynamic change. Academics from these fields were deeply engaged in public debates and intellectual controversies about the nature of modernity and the future of the German nation after its defeat in the First World War. The national-conservative majority of the faculty kept their distance from the new democracy, criticizing new forms of cultural and political pluralism as being symptomatic of a crisis of national culture. However, the search for intellectual orientation fuelled new approaches in the humanities: ‘objective idealism’, holistic approaches, and new research methods opened up innovative perspectives in history, theology, philosophy, and literary criticism. Yet these new approaches had ambivalent political outcomes: on the one hand, they led to an engagement with the mixture of nationalist völkisch ideas that became state ideology between 1933 and 1945. On the other, during the Weimar era methodological realignment was embraced by many critical approaches in the humanities and social sciences, whose proponents went into exile in 1933.

scholarly journals Maximum Dissemination: A possible model for society journals in the humanities and social sciences to support "Open" while retaining their subscription revenue

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
John G. Dove
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
The Other ◽  
Unauthorized Access ◽  
American Council ◽  
Learned Societies ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

It is well recognized that one of the hardest problems in the Open Access arena is how to ‘flip’ the flagship society journals in the humanities and social sciences. Their revenue from a flagship journal is critical to the scholarly society. On the one hand, it is true that the paywall which guards the subscription system from unauthorized access is marginalizing whole categories of scholars and learners. On the other hand, “flipping”to an APC based model simply marginalizes some of the same people and institutions on the authorship side. Various endowment or subsidy models of flipping create the idea of Samaritans and “freeloaders” which bring into question their sustainability. I propose re-thinking the relationship between publisher and author. The publisher should act as the experts in dissemination and should take on the responsibility of maximizing the dissemination of the author’s work by providing the author’s accepted manuscript (AAM) to an appropriate repository and taking down the paywall. When requests for an article come to the publisher instead of presenting non-subscribers with a paywall, they instead direct the request to the repository in which the AAM has been archived. This walk-through of Maximum Dissemination is followed by: A statement from Princeton’s Professor Stanley Katz, president emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies A youtube video by Associate Professor of Sociology Smith Radhakrishnan which is attached to this submission, is available at http://youtu.be/sPO66vuTFJ0.

scholarly journals Tao Yuan. Research on Translation of Academic Texts in Humanities and Social Sciences Based on Russian-Chinese Parallel Corpus. Bejing, Science Publishing, 2018, 202 p.; 2nd ed., revised. Bejing, Science Publishing, 2021, 212 p. (in Chin.)

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-168
Author(s):  
V. P. Zakharov
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Scientific Texts ◽  
Parallel Corpus ◽  
Academic Texts ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences

The monograph is devoted to the descriptive analysis of the translation of scientific texts from Russian into Chinese based on corpus linguistics methods. The norms of translation, the issues of specificity and universality, as well as the influence of the characteristics of the source text on the translation text are discussed, in other words, the set of factors that influence the translation is investigated.

Translation Universals of Discourse Markers in Russian-to-Chinese Academic Texts: A Corpus-based Approach

2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhanhao Jiang ◽  
Yuan Tao
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Discourse Markers ◽  
Academic Texts ◽  
European Languages ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences

SummaryThe existing research on translational universals (TUs) has so far been confined to limited language pairs such as English-German, English-French, Hungarian-English, Polish-English, English-Chinese, and Scandinavian languages with English being the focus. If the “translationese” or features of translational language that have been uncovered on the basis of translational English are to be generalized as translational universals, it is necessary that we should find proof or evidence from non-European languages or two typologically different languages such as Russian and Chinese. This paper, on the basis of self-compiled parallel Russian-Chinese corpora and comparable non-translational Chinese corpora of academic texts for humanities and social sciences, explores potential features of translational Chinese by taking translation of discourse markers (DMs) as an example. Through statistics and observation, this research concludes with four tentative translation universals: simplification, implicitation, strengthening and normalization among the translational Chinese of Russian DMs. Underlying reasons may lie in both typological differences between two languages and translators’ choice of either target texts (TT) convention or source texts (ST) convention.

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