| Keywords [eng] |
autoriaus pozicijos raiška, santykio su skaitytoju kūrimas, lyties aspektas, teisinis diskursas, knygų apžvalgos, stance, engagement, gender preference, legal discourse, book reviews, Hyland’s model of interaction |
| Abstract [eng] |
This research presents the analysis of stance and engagement markers in law book reviews. The principal objective of this study is to comprehensively analyse how male and female writers utilize stance and engagement markers to express their viewpoints on presented arguments and observe the variations in their usage and meanings. This research presents the analysis of 40 law book reviews sourced from the Harvard Law Review journal. This journal is an effective research tool for practicing lawyers and law students. Furthermore, it allows Review members to develop their writing, reviewing, and editing skills. Harvard Law Review publishes articles written by a diverse group of contributors, including students, professors, judges, alumni, and practitioners. Hyland's (2005) model of interaction was utilized to analyse the law book reviews. He divides stance into four markers (hedges, boosters, attitude markers, self-mention) and engagement into five markers (reader pronouns, directives, questions, shared knowledge, personal asides). The findings of this study indicate that stance markers were more frequently used than engagement markers. Furthermore, both stance markers and engagement markers were found to be more prominent in the corpus of male writers when compared to female writers. The most dominant markers of stance were hedges and self-mention, while reader pronouns and questions were the most frequently used markers of engagement. Notably, the frequency of stance markers was found to be approximate twice that of engagement markers. The writers of the analysed law book reviews tended to use expressions with a lower level of certainty and expressed assumptions rather than making specific claims. Moreover, these writers made deliberate efforts to engage with the reader by posing questions, adding additional comments, and personal asides to the text. |
