STANCES ON THE XYLELLA FASTIDIOSA BACTERIUM AND THE CORONAVIRUS IN THE PUBLIC DISCOURSE

Authors

  • Danijela Đorđević
  • Tijana Vesić Pavlović

Keywords:

stance, metadiscourse, public discourse, Xylella fastidiosa, coronavirus

Abstract

The paper deals with the stances on the Xylella fastidiosa (Xf) bacterium and the coronavirus in the public discourse. Relying on Hyland’s stance model (2005), we seek to identify the linguistic devices (hedges, boosters, attitude markers and selfmentions), used in both contexts, which helped the authors express their opinions. The corpus comprises articles on Xf and the coronavirus collected from the internet sources in English. The findings indicate that the most frequent stance markers in both subcorpora include hedges and boosters. There are slight differences in the marker frequencies, depending on the disease in question. The conclusion discusses the role of stance markers in impacting attitudes while reporting on these two important issues and their use in communicating tentativeness or certainty.

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Published

2024-12-30

How to Cite

Đorđević, D., & Vesić Pavlović, T. (2024). STANCES ON THE XYLELLA FASTIDIOSA BACTERIUM AND THE CORONAVIRUS IN THE PUBLIC DISCOURSE. Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies, 16(1), 15–36. Retrieved from https://belgrade-bells.fil.bg.ac.rs/index.php/belgrade-bells/article/view/bells-2024-16-1

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 1 (2024): BELLS - volume 16

Section

THEORETICAL AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS

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