Stance in climate science: A diachronic analysis of epistemic stance features in IPCC physical science reports

Authors: Robert Poole, Nicholas Hayes Abstract: This diachronic corpus-based analysis investigates the use of epistemic stance devices in reports from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)from the date of its first report on the physical science of climate change in 1990 to its sixth contribution in 2021. Applying the framework of stance (Biber & Finegan, 1989), […]
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