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In:“All families and genera”: Exploring the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts
Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Inés Lareo and Gonzalo Camiña
[Not in series 237] 2021
► pp. 189–208

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Chapter 10
“If you will take the trouble to inquire into it rather closely, I think you will find that it is not worth very much”

Authorial presence through conditionals and citation sequences in late modern English life sciences texts

ORCiD logo with link | University of A Coruña
Published online: 10 September 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/z.237.10pue
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The author in the text in late modern English scientific writing
  • 3.An overview on studies of authorial presence
  • 4.Conditionals and authorial presence
  • 5.Expressing opinions by means of citation sequences
  • 6.Corpus and methodology
  • 7.Analysis of the results
    • 7.1Conditionals
      • a.Relevance conditionals
      • b.Non-committal conditionals
      • c.Metalinguistic conditionals
    • 7.2Citation sequences
      • a.Isolated quotations
      • b.Citation sequences expressing agreement
      • c.Citation sequences expressing neutrality
      • d.Citation sequences expressing disagreement
  • 8.Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Works cited
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