Endorsement is often discerned with reporting verbs and phrases, as well as surrounding texts.
The results indicated that there are some differences in the use of reporting verbs between the two corpora.
While coding, linguistic cues such as modality (modals, adverbs), sentence structure and subjects, and reporting verbs were accounted for.
Accordingly, this study investigated the frequency of the most used reporting verbs and their function in the Introduction and Literature Review sections of research articles (RAs) written by native and non-native writers.
Participant 4 reported preparing slides for this writing exercise, which included topics such as parallel structures (e.g., respectively), noun phrases containing multiple adjectives modifying the noun (e.g., fine red particles, well-preserved fossil), reporting verbs (e.g., show, indicate, demonstrate), and voice (passive vs. active).
Reporting event-predicates are generally expressed by reporting verbs.
From a grammatical perspective, the timing of reporting verbs has an influence on the temporal interpretation of event-predicates in the scope of quoted speech.
Moreover, there is also the challenge with reporting verbs in deciding whether the time being mentioned is the time of the reporting event-predicate or the time of the event-predicate being reported.
(A tangent: Lieberman's prepared text reads muddied; many newspaper accounts of the speech reported his verb as muddled. He may have used both, at different times.
I also looked at the type of reporting verb used, the subject, and the connecting words like however, thus, and despite.
The final draft expands on Borba's arguments by including a quote that gives the rationale for supporting such an opinion, starting with She states that… Mara creates a dialogically expansive space by using a relatively neutral reporting verb, states.
