56239 20210121114459.0 sideral 95429 ART-2015-95429 eng (orcid)0000-0001-8966-1013 Mur Dueñas, María Pilar Universidad de Zaragoza Looking into ELF variants: A study of evaluative it-clauses in research articles 2015 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Given the high number of non-native English speakers in academia, it becomes necessary to look at the use made of English as a lingua franca (ELF), especially in written communication. It is the aim of this paper to look at ELF in a written academic genre, the research article (RA), in the discipline of business management. A corpus of ELF RAs written by scholars with different linguacultural backgrounds will be compared with a corpus of RAs written by scholars affiliated to Anglo-American institutions. The analysis will focus on a particular genre- specific formulaic sequence (Hu¨ttner, 2007), evaluative it-clauses. Results show differences in their frequency of use, the choice of adjectives, and (lack of) modality. The findings can be interpreted as lexico-grammatical innovations (Dewey, 2007), creative expressions (Seidlhofer, 2011), or emerging patterns (Jenkins, Cogo, & Dewey, 2011) in the process of adaptation, evolution and dynamism of English as used in international written academic communication. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/FFI2012–37346 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 0.112 2015 Linguistics and Language 2015 Q3 Language and Linguistics 2015 Q3 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 3004 345 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema. Área Filología Inglesa 3, 2 (2015), 160-179 ESP Today ESP Today 2334-9050 http://www.esptodayjournal.org/pdf/current_issue/8.12.2015/PILAR_MUR-DUENAS-full-text.pdf Texto completo de la revista 631890 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/56239/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 66466 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/56239/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:56239 articulos driver 2021-01-21-10:50:10 ARTICLE