1. What’s the broad area of the literature being discussed?
The broad area of the literature being discussed is Linguistics.
2. What are some of the sub-topics within this broad area?
The sub-topics with broad area are Knowledge claims, Academic discourse and Economics.
3. What are some key issues?
Key issues are to identify knowledge claims in the introduction section of research articles in economics and linguistics, and to reveal the linguistic differences in the two disciplines’ research article texts.
Do these key issues involve descriptive problems or cause and effect relationships?
Yes.
4. Does Dahl discuss theory and/or methodology?
Yes, she does.
She mentions two previous studies (Myers 1992, Bloor and Bloor 1993) which proposed each theory. She adapts 50 research articles, 25 from each of the two disciplines, from KIAP Corpus based on three criteria.
state, suggest, imply, indicate, show, claim, propose, argue and describe
6. What are some of the outstanding questions?
What is the difference of knowledge claim in Introduction section between linguistics and economics?
7. What do researchers still disagree about?
She argues against Myer’s claim that stereotypical statements of kind The purpose of this paper is to mark the main claim of the article.
8. What do researchers now know about the research question?
Claim is both disciplines tend to be unhedged, but with slightly more hedging in linguistics than in economics. The reason for this is that economics is a more competitive field than linguistics, encouraging explicit signaling
of new claims in order to attract the attention of the research community.
9. Based on the literature review, what do you think Dahl's study will do?
I think that Dahl achieved her main goal in this study. Then, she is interested in the different hedging behavior by individual authors. Some authors are more authoritative to use a term from economics in their writing than others.
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