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Lista de candidatos sometidos a examen:
1) boosting (*)
(*) Términos presentes en el nuestro glosario de lingüística
1) Candidate: boosting
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paper corpusSignosTxtLongLines599 - : 1. Boosting: Pragmatic functions and cross-disciplinary variation
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paper corpusSignosTxtLongLines599 - : Scholars interested in boosting have provided a number of definitions. Traditionally boosting has been defined as involving the expression of varying degrees of commitment or seriousness of intention (^[59]Holmes, 1984) and as “communicative strategies for increasing the force of statements” (^[60]Hyland, 1998a: 350), to which ^[61]Peacock (2006: 65 ) added that it also serves to “emphasise certainty, strong commitment, conviction and accepted truth”. For Hyland (^[62]1998a: 353), boosters counterbalance and, in a way, contradict the use of hedges, which are so effective in the “conciliatory and defensive tactics” of the writers of research articles. Boosters, according to the same author, allow writers to express their conviction and at the same time, they limit the negotiating space available to the reader. For the purpose of this study, we will follow ^[63]Mur-Dueñas (2011: 3070), who defines boosters as:
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paper corpusSignosTxtLongLines599 - : Regarding the pragmatic functions of boosters, they have been referred to in previous studies in terms of expressing evidential or implicit truth, accepted truth, and solidarity (^[64]Peacock, 2006). When writers use boosters to express evidential or implicit truth, they do so to assert the truth resulting from the research in question, and not in order to make judgement claims. Examples of such boosting would be the use of the following verbs: ‘show’, ‘demonstrate’ and ‘find’ (^[65]Skelton, 1997 ). In the same line, ^[66]Hunston (1993) argues that ‘show’, ‘demonstrate’ and ‘establish’, used as boosters, convey certainty arising from the convincing nature of the data reported and not from mere persuasion. Similarly, ^[67]Swales (1990: 151) refers to these three verbs as “powerful rhetorical tools” used to signal that the claims made are to be taken as substantiated. Both ^[68]Swales (1990) and ^[69]Salager-Meyer (1994) argue that the verbs mentioned express commitment to a proposit
Evaluando al candidato boosting:
1) boosters: 6
4) writers: 3
5) verbs: 3 (*)
6) commitment: 3 (*)
7) express: 3
boosting
Lengua: eng
Frec: 31
Docs: 10
Nombre propio: 1 / 31 = 3%
Coocurrencias con glosario: 2
Puntaje: 2.875 = (2 + (1+4.24792751344359) / (1+5)));
Candidato aceptado
Referencias bibliográficas encontradas sobre cada término
(Que existan referencias dedicadas a un término es también indicio de terminologicidad.)| boosting |
: Hu, G. & Cao, F. (2011). Hedging and boosting in abstracts of applied linguistics articles: A comparative study of English-and-Chinese-medium journals. Journal of Pragmatics, 43, 2795-2809. : Hyland, K. (1998). Boosting, hedging and the negotiation of academic knowledge, Text & Talk,18(3), 349-382. : Peacock, M. (2006). A cross-disciplinary comparison of boosting in research articles. Corpora, 1(1), 61-84. : Salgado-Robles, F. & Kirven, L. (in press). Boosting intercultural competence in Spanish for social service professionals through service-learning. Cuadernos de ALDEEU, 33. : Uclés, G. (en prensa). Mitigation and boosting as face-protection functions. Journal of Pragmatics. |