Nowadays, when English has firmly established itself as a lingua franca (ELF) in academic settings, it is very important to study the features of texts written by L2 speakers who come from a variety of cultural and L1 backgrounds and who use ELF in their academic communication. The present study focuses on clusters of epistemic stance expressions used in research articles in social sciences and humanities written by L2 speakers. The analysis of twenty papers from the SciELF corpus reveals the patterns in the use of epistemic stance clusters, their distribution in different sections of research articles and the functions the clusters perform at the textual level. The results show that there are many similarities in the distribution and functions of epistemic stance clusters in texts. This suggests that the way L2 speakers, who are professionals in their fields, express epistemic stance seems to be more influenced by the norms of the genre and the discipline than by their linguistic and cultural backgrounds.

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“似乎有理由维持这一点……”：书面学术精灵文本中的认知姿态表达群

如今，当英语在学术环境中牢固确立自己的通用语（ELF）地位时，研究来自具有不同文化背景和一级语言背景并且在学术中使用ELF的第二语言演讲者撰写的文本的特征非常重要。通讯。本研究的重点是在由L2演讲者撰写的社会科学和人文科学研究论文中使用的认知态度表达的群集。对来自SciELF语料库的20篇论文的分析揭示了认知立场类集的使用模式，它们在研究文章的不同部分的分布以及这些类集在文本水平上的功能。结果表明，文本中认知姿势簇的分布和功能存在许多相似之处。这表明L2扬声器的方式