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A diachronic study of self-sourced reporting clauses in mechanical engineering and education.

Reporting clauses are a powerful way of constructing stance that contributes to writers' presentation of propositions. Based on a corpus of 320 research articles from a hard discipline (mechanical engineering) and a soft discipline (education), this study examined the diachronic changes in the stanc...

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Published in:Southern African Linguistics & Applied Language Studies Vol. 43; no. 4; pp. 615 - 631
Main Authors: Pan, Fan, Lv, Tianran
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Dec2025
Subjects:
Historical linguistics
Grammar
Mechanical engineering
College curriculum
Higher education
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