In this paper we present the analysis of uncertainty markers in a corpus of 60 articles randomly selected from the German popular science magazine "Spektrum der Wissenschaft" since 1993 until 2012. In addition to identifying which and how many uncertainty lexical and morphosyntactic markers wereused by scientific writers, our aims were to detect their trends over time and single out their scope, in order to test if the ratio between the amount of certainty and uncertainty remained constant in all the papers or if, on thecontrary, it changed over time. The results show that there were no significant changes.
Uncertainty markers in a corpus of German biomedical papers from "Spektrum der Wissenschaft" (1993-2012)
CANTARINI, SibillaWriting – Review & Editing
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2014-01-01
Abstract
In this paper we present the analysis of uncertainty markers in a corpus of 60 articles randomly selected from the German popular science magazine "Spektrum der Wissenschaft" since 1993 until 2012. In addition to identifying which and how many uncertainty lexical and morphosyntactic markers wereused by scientific writers, our aims were to detect their trends over time and single out their scope, in order to test if the ratio between the amount of certainty and uncertainty remained constant in all the papers or if, on thecontrary, it changed over time. The results show that there were no significant changes.
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