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Publication details [#48555]

Dahl, Trine. 2008. Contributing to the academic conversation: A study of new knowledge claims in economics and linguistics. Journal of Pragmatics 40 (7) : 1184–1201.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

academic language | economics | knowledge | linguistic action verb | research article

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper studies knowledge claims in the introduction section of English research articles in economics and linguistics. As economics is a more competitive domain than linguistics, it encourages explicit signalling of new claims in order to attract the research community's attention.