Hedges and Boosters in the Journal of Disaster and Risk Research Article Abstracts: A Sociolinguistic/Sociological Investigation

Öz

This study aims to present research within the scope of sociolinguistics and discourse analysis by identifying how authors use hedges and boosters in the abstracts of 210 research articles published in the Journal of Disaster and Risk over the past five years. These hedge and booster expressions consist of the use of actions, moods, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs that emphasize functions such as restricting explicit interpretation, clarity, and ambiguity, and are characterized as units that add information to the text and represent the author’s intellectual stance. Since the academic texts examined mainly consisted of social scientific texts, Holmes’ (1990) sociolinguistic approach was eclectically adopted in addition to the metadiscourse method. This mixed-methods study examines the sociolinguistic and intellectual background of booster and hedge uses in article abstracts emerging from disaster areas, and in this respect represents a first in Turkish literature.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• hedges
• boosters
• metadiscourse
• social sciences research articles
• abstract
• sociolinguistics

AFET VE RİSK DERGİSİ ARAŞTIRMA MAKALESİ ÖZETLERİNDE KAÇINMALARIN VE GÜÇLENDİRİCİLERİN KULLANIMI: TOPLUM(DİL)BİLİMSEL BİR İNCELEME

Öz

Bu çalışma, Afet ve Risk dergisinde son beş yılda yayımlanan 210 araştırma makalesi özetinde yazarların kaçınmaları ve güçlendiricileri (hedges and boosters) nasıl kullandıklarını tespit ederek toplumdilbilim ve söylem çözümlemesi kapsamında bir araştırma ortaya koymayı amaçlamaktadır. Söz konusu kaçınma ve güçlendirici ifadeleri açık yorumları kısıtlama, netlik, belirsizlik gibi işlevleri ön plana çıkaran eylemlerin, kiplerin, adların, sıfatların, belirteçlerin kullanımından oluşmakta ve metne bilgisellik yükleyen, yazarın bilgisel duruşunu temsil eden birimler olarak nitelendirilmektedir. İncelenen akademik metinlerin genelde sosyal bilimler metinlerinden oluşması nedeniyle üstsöylem yöntemine eklektik olarak Holmes’ün (1990) toplumdilbilim yaklaşımı benimsenmiştir. Karma yöntemle oluşturulan bu çalışma, afet alanında ortaya çıkan makale özetlerindeki güçlendirici ve kaçınma kullanımlarının, yazar ve okuyucu arasındaki toplumdilbimsel ve entelektüel arka planını sorgulamakta ve bu yönüyle Türkçe alanyazınında bir ilki temsil etmektedir.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• kaçınmalar
• güçlendiriciler
• sosyal bilim araştırma makaleleri
• özet
• toplumdilbilim

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