Abstract
Research dissemination through academic blogs creates opportunities for writers to reach wider audiences. With COVID-19, public dissemination of research impacts daily practices, and national and international policies, and in countries like the UK and Spain, The Conversation publishes accessible COVID-19 themed research. Such academic blogs are important to global academy, yet the role of authorial stance therein is notably under-investigated. This paper presents a corpus-based contrastive analysis of 'stance nouns + that/de que' in a comparable corpus of English and Spanish COVID-19 themed academic blogs, from The Conversation. The analysis identifies similarities and differences across languages that reflect how COVID-19 is framed in each language. For example, Spanish academics use Possibility and Factualness nouns when self-sourcing their stances with expanding strategies, while English academics use Argument and Idea nouns with external-sources in contracting strategies. Overall, this paper adds to current linguistic knowledge on academic blogs and scientific communication surrounding COVID-19.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 469-497 |
| Number of pages | 29 |
| Journal | International Journal of Corpus Linguistics |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Early online date | 14 Sept 2021 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 10 Nov 2021 |
Bibliographical note
This document is the author’s post-print version, incorporating any revisions agreed during the peer-review process. Some differences between the published version and this version may remain and you are advised to consult the published version if you wish to cite from it.Keywords
- academic discourse
- stance nouns
- Spanish academic writing
- expanding strategies
- contracting strategies
- English academic writing
- authorial stance
- academic blogs
- online registers
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Language and Linguistics