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Expressing Attitudinal Stance in Pakistani Academic Writing: A Corpus Based Study

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  • Musarrat Azher

    (Lecturer,Department of English,University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan.)

  • Humaira Jehanagir

    (PhD scholar, Department of English, Lancaster University, Lancashire, England.)

  • Rabia Faiz

    (Lecturer, Department of English, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan.)

Abstract

The present research aims to investigate the use of attitudinal stance devices proposed by Biber (2006) in Pakistani academic writing with respect to variation among disciplines. A special purpose corpus of Pakistani Academic Writing is built up with 235 research dissertations of M.Phil and PhD graduates representing three important disciplines (Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences) and is tagged for the lexical and grammatical features expressing attitudinal stance to measure the frequency count of each feature out of 1000 words. The frequencies of attitudinal stance devices are separately calculated for each discipline and one way ANOVA is administered to see the significant differences among disciplines on the use of attitudinal stance devices. The findings reveal statistically significant differences among disciplines and would support the ESP syllabus designers and Pakistani academic writers.Key words: Attitudinal Stance Devices, Disciplinary variation, Pakistani Academic writing

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  • Musarrat Azher & Humaira Jehanagir & Rabia Faiz, 2019. "Expressing Attitudinal Stance in Pakistani Academic Writing: A Corpus Based Study," Global Regional Review, Humanity Only, vol. 4(1), pages 175-185, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:aaw:grrjrn:v:4:y:2019:i:1:p:175-185
    DOI: 10.31703/grr.2019(IV-I).20
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    Attitudinal Stance Devices; Disciplinary Variation; Pakistani Academic Writing;
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