Understanding language through corpora: METOOL, challenges for the analysis of discursive markers
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https://doi.org/10.25267/Pragmalinguistica.2020.i28.13Info
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- Marisa Carrió Pastor (ES) Universitat Politècnica de València
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The identification and labelling of the discursive markers used in scientific papers represent a challenge, given their nature. That is why we have created a tool that identifies discursive markers and guides researchers in the use of metadiscourse. To carry out this project we have selected three different disciplines, engineering, medicine and linguistics. The purpose of the project is twofold: first, to characterise the rhetorical strategies that identify academic discourse and, then, to identify the rhetorical patterns among disciplines. For this, 'METOOL' was designed in collaboration with the University of Wolverhampton. Through corpus analysis and the identification of statistical frequencies, this tool analyses the ability to involve readers and convince them with, for example, persuasion or mitigation strategies.
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