ACADEMIC ARTICLE: SPACE OF POSITIONING AND NEGOTIATIONS

Abstract

This paper presents some partial results of a larger research whose principal question deals with how researchers construct their positionings and interactions in both theoretical and experimental articles within Linguistics scientific field. The analysis stems from one moment of my research in which I sought to recognize, map and analyze hedges and boosters (Hyland, 2000), given that they construct interpersonal meanings of positioning and interaction of the researcher-author of the theoretical and experimental articles analyzed in this paper (Swales, 2004).