This study investigates the textual colligation of stance phrases at the levels of sentence, paragraph and text in empirical research articles from agriculture and economics. We extracted the textual positions of stance phrases with the software Wordskew (Barlow, 2016) in two purpose-built corpora of around three million tokens. The results show that stance phrases display similar distribution patterns in the two disciplinary corpora; however, we found significant differences with respect to the frequency of stance phrases in particular textual positions in each corpus. The findings consolidate Hoey’s (2005) premise that certain expressions are primed to occur in particular textual positions. We contend that the textual positions of stance phrases may be a result of the routinised discourse function that they serve, and that the appropriate timing of stance-taking is of particular communicative importance.

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跨学科学术话语中立场用语的语篇拼贴

本研究从句、段、文三个层面对农学和经济学实证研究文章中立场短语的语篇拼贴进行研究。我们使用 Wordskew 软件（Barlow，2016 年）在两个大约 300 万个标记的专用语料库中提取了立场短语的文本位置。结果表明，立场短语在两个学科语料库中表现出相似的分布模式；然而，我们发现每个语料库中特定文本位置中立场短语的频率存在显着差异。研究结果巩固了 Hoey (2005) 的前提，即某些表达准备好出现在特定的文本位置。我们认为立场短语的文本位置可能是它们所服务的常规化话语功能的结果，