Workshop "Subjectivity in research articles: Are “soft” sciences less objective than “hard” ones?"
Objectivity is considered to be one of the major characteristics of research writing. How can we distinguish one writer from another in an impersonal text? To be recognizable, one needs to demonstrate their own authorial voice. Recent studies have demonstrated that research writers do express their opinions and attitudes in the articles rather than merely communicate facts. The workshop will focus on linguistic markers of authorial voice. We will find out what stance features are conventionally employed by researchers from “hard” and “soft” disciplines and practice using them in some tasks.
Speaker: Elizaveta A. Smirnova is an associate professor of Foreign Languages Department at the HSE University in Perm. She is an academic supervisor of the BA Programme "Foreign languages and intercultural communication in business." She holds a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Vigo (Spain). Her research interests include corpus linguistics, academic discourse analysis, and teaching English for academic purposes. Her works were published in such journals as Lingua, Pragmatics and Society, the International Journal of Applied Linguistics.
Target audience: HSE teachers, researchers, and graduate students
Language: English
Date & Time: May 27, 17:30 - 19:30
Location: online