Online Data Articles: The Language of Intersubjective Stance in a Rhetorical Hybrid

The data article is a digital genre that has emerged in response to new exigencies, namely, to make data more transparent and research processes more trustable and reproducible. Following White’s framework of intersubjective stance, this article draws upon statistical tools and collocational and dis...

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Published inWritten communication Vol. 39; no. 3; pp. 400 - 425
Main Author Pérez-Llantada, Carmen
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.07.2022
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Collocations
Computer Mediated Communication
Data
Discourse analysis
Discourse functions
Form Classes (Languages)
Heteroglossia
Language Research
Linguistics
Passive voice
Pragmatics
Rhetoric
dialogism
digital genres
open science
online communication
genre hybridization
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Summary:The data article is a digital genre that has emerged in response to new exigencies, namely, to make data more transparent and research processes more trustable and reproducible. Following White’s framework of intersubjective stance, this article draws upon statistical tools and collocational and discourse analyses to examine the linguistic resources deployed by authors to respond to both exigencies. The results show a high presence of dialogically contractive resources (above all, passive constructions and, only in one data article section, inanimate subjects) by which authors do not fully engage with dialogic alternatives (heteroglossic disengagement). Dialogically expansive resources (anticipatory it-subjects and we-pronouns) are extremely rare, corroborating that the authors’ stance is neither monoglossic (undialogized) nor heteroglossically engaged. Further, the discourse functions and ensuing pragmatic effects of the prevailing intersubjective stance resources, significantly different between and among the data article sections, including their associated abstracts, reveal the construal of very distinct dialogic spaces for writer-reader interaction within this article type. Such intra-generic variation may be explained by the social (and rhetorical) action that the genre fulfills, namely, to describe and highlight the value of the research data.
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ISSN:0741-0883
1552-8472
DOI:10.1177/07410883221087486