It-clauses with adjectival predicates in English-medium articles: disciplinary and linguacultural considerations.

Szczygłowska, Tatiana

Publication:
It-clauses with adjectival predicates in English-medium articles: disciplinary and linguacultural considerations.

dc.contributor.author	Szczygłowska, Tatiana
dc.contributor.department	University of Bielsko-Biala (Poland)	es
dc.date.accessioned	2025-07-16T10:38:07Z
dc.date.available	2025-07-16T10:38:07Z
dc.date.issued	2025
dc.description.abstract	This article examines it-clauses with adjectival predicates in 240 English-medium articles by Polish and Anglophone authors representing medicine and psychology, aiming to investigate how disciplinary and linguacultural constraints affect the frequency, in-text distribution, and semantic, syntactic, and lexical variability of the structure. The study attempts to address a gap in previous research, which has not yet compared these two disciplines and linguacultural contexts to reveal how they differ in their use of the device to express the writer’s stance. The results show that it-clauses are significantly more frequent in psychology and that the disciplines differ in the degree to which they exploit various aspects of the evaluative potential of the structure, although both use it most heavily in discussions, and prioritize to-infinitive clauses and evaluative predicates. The latter preference, as the study reveals, is marked only in Polish articles, where prominence is given to those features of it-clauses that are frequent in popular and non-native English writing. The features preferred in Anglophone articles are more typical of proficient writing.	en
dc.format	application/pdf	es
dc.format.extent	25	es
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.609701
dc.identifier.eisbn	Szczygłowska, T. (2025). It-clauses with Adjectival Predicates in English-Medium Articles: : Disciplinary and Linguacultural Considerations. International Journal of English Studies, 25(1), 47–71. https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.609701	es
dc.identifier.issn	1578-7044
dc.identifier.issn	1989-6131 (Internet)
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/157448
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones.	es
dc.relation	Sin financiación externa a la Universidad.	es
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	It-clauses	en
dc.subject	Academic Writing	en
dc.subject	Disciplinary Variation	en
dc.subject	Linguacultural Variation	en
dc.subject	Corpus-based Analysis	en
dc.subject.other	CDU::8- Lingüística y literatura	es
dc.title	It-clauses with adjectival predicates in English-medium articles: disciplinary and linguacultural considerations.	en
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication	es